About

Lauren Guymer is an Australian visual artist living and working in Jyväskylä, Finland. Lauren predominately creates immersive landscape paintings on paper that explore her experiences and memories of the natural world. She is best known for her highly detailed watercolours that often sprawl across large sheets of paper. An essential part of her process includes observing, walking, and creating directly in nature.

Born in Melbourne, Lauren grew up in a creative family on a small bushland property on the Mornington Peninsula in Australia. In 2014, Lauren received a Bachelor of Design and has since been practicing as a self-taught artist. She has exhibited widely in group and solo shows, including a major public exhibition, ‘Among The Trees’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (AUS) in 2021. Her artwork is in public collections at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (AUS) and Southern Midlands Collection (AUS), and private collections in the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Iceland, and Australia. She has been a finalist in several prize exhibitions, including the Australian Watercolour Muster Biennale 2023 (AUS), Paddington Prize 2022 (AUS), and Southern Buoy Landscape Prize 2020 & 2019 (AUS). Further opportunities include undertaking artist residencies in Finland, Iceland, and Australia. Lauren is a current member of the Finnish Painters Union and the Jyväskylä Artists Association.