‘a z u l e s’

l a u r a m i l a

Intro

These works sit between deep blues and encroaching blacks, tracing the quiet space where hope and pain coexist. Layers of oil, charcoal and gold leaf speak to endurance, where something broken is not hidden, but remade, allowing beauty to emerge from what was once ash.

As a Colombian artist based in London, my practice reflects on memory, and the emotional weight of lived experience, using abstraction as a way to hold both sorrow and the possibility of hope, not through self reflection, but as a mirror of all of us, and what the colours and composition might translate to anyones emotions.

En el Profundo Mar Azul (In the Deep Blue Sea)

A wide, open field of blue disrupted by drifting blacks, like shadows passing under water. There’s a tenderness here, a sense of pain carried slowly across the surface. The gold leaf catches like light through clouded depth, holding the possibility that even sorrow may become something luminous.

Oil, Oil Stick, Acrylic, Charcoal, Gold Leaf on Canvas

100 cm x 150 cm (including frame)

Profundo en el Agua (Deep in the Water)

This piece sits in that place beneath language, deep blues held against passages of black that feel both heavy and protective. It speaks to the ache of being submerged, and the quiet hope that insists on rising. Gold appears not as decoration, but as something hard-won , a kind of beauty born out of strive.

Oil, Oil Stick, Acrylic, Charcoal, Gold Leaf on Canvas

100 cm x 150 cm (including frame)

Ecos del Agua (Echoes of Water)

Gestural marks in charcoal move quietly through layers of blue, echoing what lingers long after the moment has passed. It reflects the way pain settles into memory — softened with time, while fragments of gold emerge as reminders that hope often arrives in the aftermath.

Oil, Oil Stick, Acrylic, Charcoal, Gold Leaf on Canvas

121.9 cm x 95.4 cm

Entre Corrientes (Between Currents)

Suspended between darker forms and translucent blues, this work traces the push and pull of emotional tides. Black presses in, blue opens out, and through it all gold interrupts, not to erase the pain, but to suggest the possibility of grace, and of beauty formed where something once burned.

Oil, Oil Stick, Acrylic, Charcoal, Gold Leaf on Canvas

121.9 cm x 95.4 cm

About the Artist

In the sweeping strokes of my large abstract canvases, I like to paint in soft pinks and pastels, the narrative of a homeland remembered and reimagined.

Vivid bursts of red, blue, and orange punctuate the tranquil dreamscape, each hue speaks resilience and renewal. Against these, blocks of solemn black bear silent testimony to Colombia’s dark days of conflict, other memories of my childhood.

Yet, it is the delicate threads of gold leaf that weave through the canvas, bringing light to the shadows, symbolising the healing of fragmented lives and the enduring richness of the Colombian earth.

These elements combine, not merely to paint a picture, but to sing a hopeful ode to the future, a future where the children of Colombia can flourish under skies stitched with promise. Through my art, I channel the sentiment of my past, casting it forward in colours that speak of pain transformed into beauty.

Originally from Colombia, I am now based in London, a city that has adopted me and nurtured my artistic growth. It was during my time studying for a BA in Illustration in Bristol that I discovered my love for abstract painting as a way to translate emotions in an explorative and expressive form.