Lou Hamilton

Lou Hamilton is an artist, multi-award-winning filmmaker & podcaster. She makes abstract paintings, which aim to help create quiet, meditative spaces to live and work. Concerned mainly with the abstract & working with found materials, oils, inks, plaster & acrylic, Lou is currently exploring chaos & calm through simple textures inspired by the landscape. Whether on paper, textile or canvas, they give a lens through which to view the world, a moment to stop, pause & consider

Lou’s grand-father was the figurative painter Geoffrey Tibble 1909-1952. He was one of the distinguished & influential group of artists that emerged from the Slade at the of the 1920’s and was a member of the Euston Road School of Painters. His work can be seen at the Tate, and is in many collections around the world. In 1933 he with William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore & Rodrigo Moynihan founded the Objective Abstraction movement. It was short-lived but Lou has taken up the mantel through her work.

Lou grew up in the wild, open and ancient landscape of Wiltshire, and every year since childhood has spent summers amongst the scorched, saturated colours of South of France. For five years she lived and painted in the Lake District, Cumbria and South West Scotla...

M.A. Public Art (Distinction). Chelsea College of Art, London.
Dip AD. (Distinction). Dip. Fine Art Byam Shaw School of Art London.

Solo show at Pinewood Studios 2022
Solo show at The William Blake Gallery London 2022.
Selected for The Other Fair London October 2021
Solo show at The William Blake Gallery London 2018.
Selected for The Other Fair London March 2018
Solo show at The William Blake Gallery London 2017
Selected for The Other Art Fair London 2016
Corsham Pound Arts Centre commissioned One Woman Show
Dumfries & Galloway Arts Centre two person show
First Prize Robert Burns Art Competition, Scotland
Spacex Art Gallery Exeter
Mall Galleries, Pastel Exhibition