Louise Walker

Recently shown at The Royal Institute of Watercolour Artists at the Mall Galleries, London and short listed for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2014.

As a female artist I have always rather envied those militant female artists who can take a picture of their privates and scrawl RAGE across the frame in red. However I have to admit to myself that I am not political, I seldom read a newspaper or look at the news in the media. This could of course be a reaction to a life as a costume designer in TV, films and theatre, which is a life full of politics, budgets and egos.

I was made to realise why I now paint when a friend said he loved the serenity and beauty of the pictures. I realised that this is why I paint. I go to “another place” when I paint, a place of colour, beauty and the natural world. A lot of my paintings are of flowers I have collected while out walking with my totally spoilt and much loved Irish Terrier, Tara.

My previous career was about colour, form, design and so is my painting. I come from a background of architects, painters and art dealers, so it is no surprise that is what draws me to my practise. I am influenced by Georgia O’Keefe of course, Robert Mapplethorpe and Edward Weston and the painti...

Steve's Wood Peonies
30b Great Sutton Street
London, EC1V 0DU
July 1st – July 5th, 12 noon - 6 pm

Royal institute of Painters in Water Colours At the Mall Galleries London, SW1
April 2nd – April 19th 2014

Warwickshire Open Studios
Newbold-on-Stour
July 2013

Re-enchanted Worlds
Bosse & Baum, London
May - June 2013

Louise Walker: Recent Works
30d Great Sutton Street, London
June 2013

The Other Art Fair
Ambika P3
April 2013

Warwickshire Open Studios
Mickleton
July 2012