Studio view, 2020.Untitled, watercolour, gesso, coloured pencils and graphite, 4″ x 6″, 2020.Studio view of in-progress work. Tracks, oil on canvas, 80″ x 63″, 2019-20.Untitled, watercolour, gesso, coloured pencils and graphite, 4″ x 6″, 2020.Studio view, 2020.ntitled, watercolour, gesso, coloured pencils and graphite, 4″ x 6″, 2020.Ordovician Nude, oil on canvas, 65″ x 48″, 2019. Photo credits: Laura FindlayUntitled, watercolour, gesso, coloured pencils and graphite, 4″ x 6″, 2020.Harvest, oil on canvas, 124″ x 95″, 2019.
Laurence Pilon explores processual similitudes between painting and geologic formations. Revealing an entanglement of art-historical, mineral, and organic forms, her paintings suggest lively posthuman assemblages as imagined in a future stratum. Through a method of slow accretion, pictorial fossils emerge and fuse within aporetic geomorphic zones.