Statement
Louisa's artwork draws from everyday experiences, using a fragmented and psychedelic style to capture the complexity of memories and emotions often within the confines of a painted frame. Her pieces explore how memories fade and shift over time, transforming from intense moments into neutral, distant recollections. She explores the fragility of memory, drawing on the ideas of how moments fade, becoming disordered, distorted or numb over time. She enhances these memories by using bold, confident shapes and bright colours to intensify their impact.
Her vivid, seemingly childlike scenes tell a story of tangled memories, mixing both dark and bright colours to create surreal landscapes. These works ignore the realistic representation of foreground and background, defying natural laws to evoke a dreamlike atmosphere. She also weaves in themes of disconnection between body and soul, exploring the uneasy tension between physical and mental selves, often depicted through awkward, tangled figures.
The bold, crowded, and colourful oil paintings aim to offer a sense of freedom, inviting viewers to experience the world without the constraints of anxiety or bodily limitations, as if unburdened by the self-consciousness that typically comes with physical existence.
Education
Master of the Arts, Painting 2021-2022 (Arts University Bournemouth)
BA Fine Art (HONS) 2019-2021 (Arts University Bournemouth)
Art and Design Diploma (University of the Creative Arts)
Exhibitions and Residencies
Dangerous Women, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, April 2024
Longlisted for VAA Professional Artist Award 2023
Cyprus School of Art Residency, June-July 2023
Displaying in The Stockroom Society, Leatherhead, May 2023 - PRESENT
Juice Box by Fresh Salad, RuptureXIBIT, 11th November – 17th November 2022
Graduate Exhibition, The Lighthouse, Poole, 4th September – 28th October 2022
XOXO Bournemouth, Group Exhibition, May 2022
Eggardon Residency, Dorset, March 2022
Eggardon Residency, Dorset, March 2022
Final Degree show, North Lights Studios, Arts University Bournemouth 2021
Bournemouth Natural History Museum, AUB 2020
First year exhibition, Arts University Bournemouth 2019
Front cover book, Exhale, book by Ffion Denman 2019
Foundation year exhibition, University of the Creative Arts 2018