Laura E Butler was born in Belfast and studied art at Jordanstown, County Antrim and Exeter, Devon. She has a BA Honours degree in Fine Art and her work includes both painting and photography. Laura lives in Northern Ireland and much of her artwork is concerned with the sense of place within Irish landscape. Her vision is centred on the private, quiet places which bear the traces of lives past and present and she often depicts ruined and abandoned buildings. Laura's work is evocative of both presence and absence.