Louise Rowe

Louise uses a range of approaches to image making, taking the relationship between sea and land as a starting point.  She uses lyrical, free style paint marks to create real and imagined views with cracked and broken forms She has a passion for colour and texture and most recently she has worked on canvas boards to take observation and experience into her remembered forms.  Her strong, colour drenched images have distinct surreal qualities yet link to realism and nature.

She often uses gold leaf as a background to intimate pen and ink drawings of wildlife and local buildings. She is well known for her original thumbprint paintings – these are made up of several small images that connect to each other in subject and space to form one larger picture. Originally trained to teach art, she has worked in further education as a teacher and senior manager.  More recently, for two consecutive years her paintings were selected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water colours exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.  Her studio is at her home in Woking.