Lara Cobden

Lara Cobden (b.1971) is a painter living and working in Norwich, Norfolk. Lara graduated with a degree in Painting at Brighton University in 1996, and then spent 11 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. In 2019-20 Lara completed a year on the Turps Banana Correspondence Course, a highly regarded programme of one to one online mentoring. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally and has been a recipient of a number of awards, including the Parker Harris Mentorship Prize at the 2018 Wells Arts Contemporary Art Awards, 1st Prize in the Sir John Hurt’s Art Prize, 2nd place in the 2019 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, the Chair’s Purchase Prize in the 2019 ING Discerning Eye exhibition, and most recently a Finalist in the 2020 John Moores Painting Prize. Lara has had solo shows in London at Liliya Gallery and Cane & Davis, and also Irving Gallery in Oxford.