Louise Body

Louise studied Painting at Nottingham Trent University and graduated in 1996. Her love of painting began as a child, both her grandmothers were artists and Louise’s parents both went to art school
”My previous experience as a wallpaper and textile designer has influenced the way I work. I will often use simplified shapes, blocks of colour and repeating patterns in my landscapes and the finished piece often has a strong sense of design. I paint from memory, and I am interested in the interpretation of the natural world, the way that landscapes and memories change over time and how these changes can be reflected in painting. Through these imagined landscapes, which often slip into the dream-like, I sometimes use repetitive lines to echo the fluid, wave-like patterns of dreams and thoughts, like stepping into a place between waking and sleeping, transforming the landscape into something otherworldly”.