Lara Cobden is a painter based in Norwich, Norfolk. Lara graduated with a degree in Painting at Brighton University in 1996, and then spent many years in Ireland before relocating to East Anglia. Predominately a landscape painter, focusing on memory and sense of place, her work is a response to the natural world around her.

She is a member of The Arborealists, a group of artists specialising in the art of trees, who exhibit widely across Europe.

Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally and has been a recipient of a number of awards, including 2nd place in the 2019 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, and a finalist in the 2021 John Moores Painting Prize.
Spellbound by those fragments of time where light transcends the everyday, the mundane, and an everyday scene is elevated to one of significance.

Painting is an attempt to collect these experiences – a fleeting moment, light and shadows, ephemeral and yet resilient in their presence to catch them in a net, these landscapes dance between reality and dream, drawing on nature and invention, fact and fiction…the everyday seen through an alternate lens – the quiet unassuming nature of scenes where nothing in particular is going on but all feels out of kilter, grasping at the gossamer fabric of waking from a dream.