Louise is an oil painter of people, places and people in places. After completing a BA in Illustration at Kent Institute of Art and Design, she had a successful career in television production. She has now returned to painting full time and works from her home studio in Kent, UK. Her subjects are suburban, unposed and often nostalgic. They range from landscapes that are inspired by places local to where she grew up and still lives, to interiors and figurative work.

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Louise’s style is representational with snapshot compositions. It is her intent to elevate the ordinariness of clipped moments in time, question the broader story of the subject matter and evoke a shared feeling of familiarity. Louise recent works have referenced old photographs of people she knows, found photos of strangers and family Polaroids from the 70’s and 80’s.

 

She chooses images that tell strangely relatable stories to evoke complex emotions and elusive ideas. Nostalgic certainly, but nostalgia doesn’t entirely sum up what she’s aiming for. As well as this bitter-sweet remembering, the work wants to describe a feeling of absence and draw focus on a fond longing for something that is missing from the here and now.