Delta blues

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 St Ives School of Painting, completing a second year in March
2019.

Louise’s influences are various. As well as being 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. Light and dark often
features in her work, symbolising the choices we make, the yin and yang of life.