Laura Watt is a painter and draughtswoman based in Garrison, New York, whose work operates at the intersection of the ancient and the contemporary. Drawing on Arabic tiles, Buddhist mandalas, Amish quilts, and Pygmy bark cloths — not as sources to be cited but as evidence that pattern and color have always carried meaning painting is still learning to articulate — her canvases refract these wide influences into something that, in her own words, looks like something and nothing at all. Watt works primarily in gouache on paper, constructing compositions of layered lines, lozenge shapes, and geometric vectors that evoke landscapes through implied horizon lines — often presented as vertical diptychs or long horizontal triptychs. Her variegated, overlapping webs suggest interconnectedness and dialogue, pairs of paintings in conversation across space and time. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Bennington College. Her work has been exhibited at McKenzie Fine Art in New York, David Richard Gallery, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Locks Gallery, Lesley Heller Workshop, Momenta Art, and David Richard Contemporary in Santa Fe, with institutional presentations at St. Joseph's University, the Stamford Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Split, Croatia.