Louise has lived and worked in Cornwall since 1991. In the early 90’s, as a mature student, she studied at the then Falmouth College of Art on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course.
To further her artistic development she embarked on the Porthmeor Programme at the renowned St Ives School of Painting, completing a second year in March 2019. Here, Louise experimented with different mediums and approaches finding her artistic voice in both figurative and abstract work.
Louise’s influences are various, but, living in Cornwall, she is daily inspired by the beautiful landscapes and coast around her. Many of her works reflect her long interest in the connections between our ancestors and modern humans, the many traces left behind on or under the earth, scars, routes and barriers.
Louise does not aim to replicate the landscape in her work but to find a sense of place, responding to observations, sketches, photos, objects, memories, emotions, weather. Louise uses a variety of mediums to build up layers - collage papers, acrylics, oils, charcoal, ink, graphite – often combining many of these in one work. She likes to scratch and draw into the surface to give delicate and robust marks that reflect a landscape’s history. Working intuitively, Louise will often imagine a landscape using elements from her observations and research to create an image, a synthesis.
