ARTISTIC STATEMENT
Louise C Eames
I am thrilled to be able to share my Artwork with you and I hope you will enjoy looking at my paintings as much as I have enjoyed creating them.
My paintings have evolved during post lockdown and have found their own distinctive style and palette of colours. My work has gotten much brighter, almost in rebellion to what went before and the restrictions that we were under during lockdowns.
I would love for my Art to be accessible to all people and hope that they will find in my Paintings something that you can respond to and have and leave with a positive feeling. In short I would like my Art to make people smile.
I relish an eclectic range of Music I would roughly liken myself to a ‘desert island disc’, type of music lover, with many diverse playlists with a vast range of differing sounds.
Music that resonates with me currently include, Dance, Pop, Hip Hop, Classical, Heavy Metal, Rock, varied World Music, Salsa, (in particular Celia Cruz), to name but a few…
I would say that I enjoy, ‘upbeat’, sounds, often when I am Painting, or when I am reflecting on what I’ve created.
Some Paintings you will see have musical titles, others through the use of colour and brush marks resonate differing rhythms and tempos.
Aside from this, my influences are varied – Pattern, Neon Art and colour, Street art, Graffiti, plastics, art deco, street signs, street furniture and markings, biomorphic forms from the natural and manmade world, sea forms and creatures, plants and flowers. Building sites, decaying doors, detritus, (rubbish). Also the world of Dance, to name but a few.
I adore colour, the texture of paint and the process of making painting, sometimes very energetically and vigorously, in my small studio space at home.
I use intensely bright colours and make marks with total freedom. Rather than plan the outcome I set my mind and my brush free. If I find myself thinking too much about the outcome I re-emphasize the making process. I look for chance encounters and juxtapositions and relish mistakes.
Joan Miro states, ‘When I stand in front of a canvas I never know what I’ll do and I am the first one surprised by what comes out’. Tony Cragg, ‘I don’t control the content, I’m thinking about it, but I don’t control it’. Trevor Bell also says, ‘the ideal studio moment of nothingness when all notions of art practice, idea and processes give away to just painting.’
I love brash bright and zinging colours and the lush materiality of full bodied acrylic paint.
A Tutor once commented that my Painting, ‘explored the relationships between my embedded knowledge of visual
knowledge acquired, aesthetic sensibility and improvisatory practice’. I would say that this is an apt critique.
At present my, ‘go to’, Artists are John Hoyland, Albert Irvin and Gillian Ayres. I also admire the work of my tutors at Winchester School of Art including Vanessa Jackson and Clyde Hopkins.
I was fortunate to grow up in a thriving creative environment surrounded by Artists and creative thinkers and it was only natural that I should follow a similar path.
Visiting St. Ives over numerous years has also influenced me Artistically and I have a love of Terry Frost, Sandra Blow and Patrick Heron’s Artwork. Alongside this I fully realise now that my training at Winchester School of Art and Barcelona University on an Erasmus Scholarship left an indelible impression on me.
I very much feel that focusing on the upbeat in my Artwork, helps me endure the current World Crisis.