Déjà Vu

Oil on board
27cm x 19cm

Laura Quinn Harris is a Wigan artist specialising in oil portraits of people and animals. She has degrees in Mathematics and Scientific & Natural History Illustration. Her work has been displayed in numerous exhibitions across the UK and abroad, including the BP Portrait Award, Royal Society of Portrait Painters and ING Discerning Eye. She was the winner of the RBSA Prize 2022 and her work has been shortlisted for the Wildlife Artist of the Year and A&I Artists of the Year Awards. She was an invited artist on BBC One’s Extraordinary Portraits in 2022 and a runner-up on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year in 2014, when she was commissioned by the Royal College of Music to paint Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, whose portrait now hangs in the Britten Theatre.

‘Déjà Vu is a self-portrait I began painting during the third UK lockdown, when I felt as though I was living in a dreamlike state of perpetual groundhog day and all the colour seemed to be draining from my life.’