Lara Feldman (b. 1972, Cape Town, South Africa) is a painter based in London. Working primarily in oil, she draws on personal photographs and everyday encounters to paint portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Friends, strangers and familiar places enter compositions shaped by colour and the shifting detail of memory. Through gestural brushwork and passages of abstraction, Feldman transforms her photographic sources. Features soften, colours merge, and figures become less clearly defined within their surroundings. Her palette responds to both observation and imagination, allowing a remembered atmosphere to guide the image. Cape Town’s palm trees and soft light recur throughout her work, reflecting her continuing attachment to the city where she grew up. Feldman moved to London in 2018 and completed...