Artists > Louise Thomas
After retiring in 2019 from a professional career in Corporate Risk Management Louise is now a professional multimedia artist, practicing from a private studio in Milton Keynes. Her paintings have been regularly exhibited both nationally and in Europe (France, Spain, Ireland). She has been an annual participant in Bucks Art Weeks and South Northants Art Trail exhibiting and undertaking live demonstrations. She is a member of Milton Keynes Society of Artists and Bafa (Buckingham Art For All). Louise paints mainly in oils, using watercolours to sketch ideas and explore subjects before committing to oil. She also uses acrylic and soft pastel from time to time. Her favourite subjects are seascapes and landscapes, but also likes to venture into other pastures. Whilst most paintings are on canvas she is equally happy to explore other surfaces including maps
and similar grounds.
Louise’s mountain paintings are based mainly on personal exploration of the French Alps. She aims to express the powerful dominance of mountains on the landscape by incorporating textures in the paint through use of mediums mixed with traditional oil paint, creating shadow and light definition through paint relief, enhancing the portrayal of mountain ruggedness and rock formations.
Louise also favours moving water as a subject and her lakes and seascapes seek to capture the dynamic movement of waves and depth of water despite the transient nature of the subject, light and reflection. It is a particularly satisfying subject when a painting works!
Recent works include demonstration and teaching paintings of Sagres and Baleal Seascapes (Portugal), Swiss lakes, rolling waves, Coi carp and French cocktails for a bit of fun!
