Louise Smart

I make images of buildings and landscapes using acrylic paints, inks, collage, phototransfer and pastels. I am inspired by the environment from urban ruins, abandoned monuments to mountains and skyscapes. I like to explore the buildings and spaces people leave behind and the memories they hold. I 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 landsc...

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 ...