Actual size 24 x 30

Louise is a Derbyshire based photographer and printmaker. Her love affair with print was born of a lifelong love of photography and began when she first tried making screen prints from her travel photographs. Having discovered the creative possibilities of that medium, she was instantly hooked and it’s really no exaggeration to say that it was the start of a life-changing creative journey on which every step brings new discoveries, new techniques and new ideas. Inspiration can come from anything at any time – although, perhaps appropriately a for a ‘journey’, much tends to comes from travel - and Louise is happy to go wherever it leads. She particularly enjoys working in techniques that lend themselves to the use of photographic images, such as cyanotype, solar plate etching and screen printing although she also works in other methods of relief and intaglio printmaking. There are no lofty ideals behind her work; some of it may be ‘serious’ and meaningful, some light-hearted and whimsical, but mostly it’s simply intended to be pleasing to the eye. Above all, she makes images for the joy of creating them and in the hope that they’ll bring some of that joy to the people who look at them.