Louise Smart

I make images of buildings and landscapes using acrylic paints, inks, collage, phototransfer and pastels. I am inspired by cities and landscapes, from urban ruins, abandoned monuments to mountains and skyscapes. I like to explore the buildings and spaces people leave behind and enjoy observing and depicting natural and non natural objects in the environment.

Inspired by my friend and Photographer Keith Waterworth visiting Ukraine in 2014, I have produced a series of work based on ruins from the exclusion Zone around Chernobyl. I was fortunate enough to visit this area for myself in 2018 and have made further art from my own photographs to add to the series.

As well as ruins I am inspired by nature and produced a series of landscapes from Tromso which I visited in January 2018. At this time of year there is only a few hours of half light. Depicting the town, mountains and sky in this permanent dusk/night gave my images a magical sense of the unique power of the wild. I also enjoyed painting the amazing cloud formations which formed over the town when seen from the mountains. They seem to depict alternative landscapes, and embodiment of Nordic legend and hold a mystic beauty of their own complimenting the landscape below.

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My earliest memories are making marks on paper. Visual language can convey far more than just words and I always have loved making art. When I was 18yrs old I took an art foundation course and went on to complete a BA hons in Visual art at Lancaster Uni. I exhibited work as part of the Lancaster literature festival as well as independently in local cafes and bars. I continued to paint while working in bookselling in Manchester and London. I later studied at Goldsmiths College for an MA in Art Psychotherapy.

Capital art Gallery Exhibition
Jan- Feb 2026, Eltham London

SoCro Art Exhibition
May 2025,
Clocktower Café, Croydon London

London Ultra
31st Oct-10th November 2019
The Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London

London Ultra
6-9th December 2018
The Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London

Peckham Festival Open studios
15-17th September 2017
The Galleria, Pennack Road

Shadows on the Landscape
7th-21st October 2016
Islington Arts Factory

Open studio
November 2016
The Galleria, Pennack Road


Open studio
June 2012
The Galleria, Pennack ...