Welcome to the Website of Louise Gains
I was born in the south of England and after school went to Brighton Art College (though my parents were sure it was a terrible idea as I’d be penniless forever!). I was fascinated by the natural world, the forms and structures of animals and plants, and I continued my exploration of nature in my subsequent work, both 2D and 3D.
Wales and the Wye Valley
After moving to Wales in the early 1980s I discovered a landscape completely new to me - no more chalky Downs overlooking the sea, here was a darker world to explore - a moodier, more tangled forest of images.
The wild places in the Wye Valley still hold traces of earlier, mythic days, and as I walk by the river I see so many things to paint - clouds moving up the estuary, mist rising from the forest near Tintern, lost paths near forgotten mine workings, the golden light that fills the dips and hollows between the ridges toward Abergavenny - and always the burrowing tangle of the age-old hills and hedges.
My Paintings
I use oil sticks and acrylics on my canvases, and I texture the images with wire brushes and even tree-branches and brambles - anything to cram my paintings with the verdant confusion I see around me. I hope you like the pictures.
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Louise Gains Contemporary Art - louisegains@hotmail.co.uk
