Laurence Karl Jansen

Lives and works in London, UK

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, 2022/23 

B.A Fine Art Painting, Camberwell College of Art, UAL, 2018

On completion of a bachelors BA at Camberwell UAL in 2018, Jansen was selected for the Clyde and Co Art Award that included a year long group show and mentoring programme. 

To further pursue collaboration and exhibition opportunities he took part in the artist-led Turps Off-Site Painters Programme, 2020/21. 

Recent residencies include PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal, February 2022 which led to the invitation to join the two month Galerie Dida Residency, Ivory Coast. 

The RCA kindly awarded The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship to accompany his MA studio practice and post graduation he took part in the The Chancellor’s Circle Dinner, Alumni and Student Exhibition.

Jansen’s painting practice explores the gestural and symbolic potential of mark making. Rendering fluidity and movement through abstraction, he incorporates collected images to create compositions that play with biomechanical principles, in relation to architectural landscape and the figurative form. Traversing drawing, photographic field studies, media sources and collage techniques, Jansen’s process develops an emerging narrative composed of deconstructed elements. Reflecting on the intersection between nature and technology the work explores an imaginative and abstract urban ecology. These aggregates of signs search for meaning within a struggle, yet also a strong desire for symbiosis between our socio-political, technological and environmental challenges.