Louise Parsons

'What Makes Me Tick' - I wake up every day looking forward to grabbing a paintbrush and getting some paint under my fingernails! I become an explorer, a traveller, a learner and a painter who is determined to enjoy every challenge, and investigate every spark of inspiration I am lucky to have come my way. My inspiration materializes in some of the most mundane and also extraordinary ways; the noise of the city, the sun shimmering on the ocean, a gripping story on the radio, a breathtaking museum visit, the gritty, graphic shadows on the urban streets . All these things find a way into the marks and colors of my painting, reflecting the intriguing, exciting world we live in today. I use an ever expanding range of mediums including oil, acrylic and watercolor and my love of textures includes the application of many different plasters and natural stone materials.

In summary, I paint because I am curious about what might happen when I do. Painting gives me freedom to think, to write, to play and to challenge myself. Painting makes me happy.

I hope you enjoy my work and that it makes you happy too!!!!!

I studied education and textile design at college and I ventured into fashion and textiles, selling my designs in top fashion stores in the UK and USA.  I have contributed to several books on fashion and textiles as well as being featured in leading UK fashion magazines. I have taught in state schools as well as textile design courses at the Royal College of Art in London and Nottingham College of Art. For several years I was publisher of 'The Artists and Illustrators Magazine'. I was keen to enrich my skills and knowledge in art so I returned to University, gaining a Master's Degree in Art Education and shortly after moved to the US where I now live - in Miami Beach. With this new lifestyle came the opportunity and the time to develop my love of creative expression through painting. City and beach life motivate me every single day. 

I have exhibited my own fashion-label designs in Paris, London and New York over several years.

I organized three International Art Exhibitions in London at The Business Design Centre in Islington.