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| My name is Louise, and I am a new artist. I was born in Rijswijk in The Netherlands. At age 17 I moved to France to achieve fluency in the French language. I ended up staying for 10 years. I lived in Paris, La Grande Motte and Perpignan, and worked in the hospitality industry. At age 26 I backpacked extensively through India, and Sri Lanka, and trekked in Nepal. I arrived in Canada ten years ago, and am married to a Canadian. I am very happy that I discovered painting and photography a little over a year ago. One led to the other and back again. I started out with no particular thoughts or feelings about art, other than just pure wanting to touch acrylic paint, and see what I could do with a canvas. I took to working with colour, and love making round wooden coasters, and centerpieces, filling them with my intricate designs, using different colours acrylics in big waves in the background and detail in pigment ink over top. I also like to work on foamboard and artboard with Sharpies and Copic and Touch markers. Still loving my acrylics, and having paint and a few canvasses ready to go at any time. I love abstract work. Love to see the many ways how other people interpret my work, sometimes more emotional than intended, or vice versa. And how I interpret and am touched by others’ abstract work. Colours and shapes have power to hit and move me deeply, and I am searching to do the same back. Other than that, in daily life, I am often struck by beauty in tiny things, that often times others people don’t seem to notice. Maybe therefore I am drawn to macro and close-up photography. To bird photography. And to putting 10 circles inside another circle, each tinier one more beautiful than the other. Highlighting the small stuff. Cause the small stuff matters, and shouldn’t be overlooked. I most love working tedious and intricate but especially continuous, and colourful designs. It seems it allows me to shut out the world, my mind goes blank, and at the same time, has me extremely alert. Drawing is a kind of meditation, or personal training, practising patience, and attention, especially to detail. I work in series, doing one all over the board, then the next. I like having one item a little different than the rest, sometimes subtle, sometimes clearly visible. What looks like a mistake isn’t one. A reaction from somebody who desperately wanted to buy my Arabian Nights: “ The metaphorical implications just hit home with me. I saw so many meanings in that one circle. The individual who tries to fit in, but cant. The individual who is lost among a sea of conformity and struggles to stand out in some way. The subtle differences that can make an individual shine. The genetic metaphor of how we are the same, human, but each still unique.” I made a depression awareness poster, my doctor requested copies for his clinic, and an article in our local newspaper reported on it. Having suffered from depression and anxiety myself, I found working with art can be a wonderful outlet, and intended for my poster not only to get people to see a doctor for the symptoms marked, but also to pull more people towards art for its sheer therapeutic value I myself experienced. The many reactions to this poster have moved me deeply Also, I’ve had people comment they’d love to see something I made on a scarf, or shirt. My earlier trips through India and Nepal made me remember the colourful sarees, and I made a few sari designs, that I would also love to eventually see materialize. Painting and drawing is brightening up my life. I am feeling incredibly happy to have touched some people with my artwork, enough for them to want to look at it every day.. Look at the small stuff, because it’s there for a reason! |
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