Colourful Moods, Rhythms and Tempos

About

Louise writes "I am a gestural abstract painter, who has great interest in exploring the relationships between my embedded knowledge of visual knowledge acquired, aesthetic sensibility and improvisatory practice. I aim wherever possible to paint in a free ranging manner, to encourage this I work at a quick pace and endeavour not to visualise the final outcome. If I find myself doing this, I re-emphasize the making process and try to work as freely and instinctively as I am able, attempting to avoid the infiltration of more rational thought processes. I look for chance encounters and juxtapositions and relish ‘mistakes’. For this reason I really respond to Joan Miro’s painting and prints, ‘When I stand in front of a canvas I never know what I’ll do and I am the first one surprised at what comes out’. Trevor Bell too comments, ‘the ideal studio is a moment of nothingness when all notions of art practice, ideas and processes give way to just painting’. Tony Cragg also comments, ‘I don’t control the content, I’m thinking about it, but I don’t control it.’ I love brash, bright and zinging colours and the lush materiality of full bodied acrylic paint. I relish the act and physicality of painting and the handling of paint. My go to Artist’s are Albert Irvin and John Hoyland. However I also greatly admire the Paintings of Vanessa Jackson, Mali Morris and Clyde Hopkins my Tutors at Winchester School of Art. My influences are varied and include such items as Street furniture – signs and roadmarkings, man-made and organic forms, Grafitti and Street Art, biomorphic forms and Detritus to name but a few. The improvisatory nature and processes of modern jazz, as well as other art forms that use process including poetry, drama and dance. Other music that resonates with me are diverse from Hip Hop, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, World Music, Classical and Klezmer Music."