“As the world thunders around us the paintings of Laura Menzies provide breathing space. Drawn initially by their pervading tranquillity, they talk to us in whispers we half hear, suggest memories we can only half recall, turning themselves into intrigues we can’t walk away from. Her paintings are not powered by immediacy and gesture, but rather a slow palimpsest of painted layers applied and stripped away, elusive palettes, chalky, waxed or impasto surface that traps and holds marks within itself. There is a beauty and poignancy inherent in this work, a beauty of faded flowers, the passing of time, the poetry of stillness. These works take on a life of their own, they seem to have always been here, and thus make us aware of our own presence and temporality.”