Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear
Louise Dear is a painter with a simple ambition - to create beautiful paintings.
She creates large, contemporary, figurative works. Passionate about colour - shocking, vibrant and intense – Louise is continually exploring the power it has to invade our senses and influence our emotions.
Louise works on large sheets of prefabricated aluminium, priming the surface then throwing, rubbing, pouring and dripping inks and dyes, glitter and glosses, to form a background - this is then sanded, scratched and distressed, depending on what image will be overlaid. Continually experimenting with a multitude of materials, she is seduced by their substances and fascinated with their movement, individual textures and how they respond to one another. As the painting evolves she becomes intrigued with the marks - how the line within a magnified face or body organically flows. Explaining, that it is as though the image has, at this stage, become a vehicle for the marks - selecting elements from a photograph and magnifying them to such an extent, creates a new dynamic.
The finished pieces are stylised and ordered, the line defining the independent sections of colour and texture.
Louise’s subjects exist on many levels, portraying innocence yet also the lack of it - the children are storybook beautiful, their unique spirit captured and immortalised in that perfect state. By securing a tender moment or snatches of childhood memories, they are incredibly sensual, captivating, reaching out to their viewer. Her portraits are sensually erotic, beautifully demure yet subtly provocative.
Influenced by Utamaro and the artists of the ‘floating world’ and more recently their influence on the Art Deco period of the early 20th century, Louise is a painter in love with painting; with a passion and urgent need to create.
2016 | 'VICE' C R U S H Brighton BN1 1RB |
2015 | 'RUDE' C R U S H Brighton BN1 1RB |
2014 | Canvas Gallery Wimbledon London |
2014 | The Bowie Gallery Totnes Devon |
2014 | Turner Barnes Gallery Chelmsford Essex |
2013 | The Bowie Gallery Totnes Devon |
2013 | Turner Barnes Gallery Chelmsford Essex |
2013 | Louise Dear studio|gallery Totnes Devon |
2013 | Canvas Gallery Wimbledon London- solo show |
2012 | Artica Gallery Brighton - solo show |
2012 | The Bowie Gallery Totnes Devon |
2012 | Castle Galleries London - 4 solo shows |
2012 | Castle Galleries Milton Keynes - solo show |
2012 | Canvas Gallery Wimbledon London - solo show |
2011 | Washington Green Fine Art ICC - solo show |
2011 | Artisan Gallery Epping Essex - solo show |
2011 | Castle Galleries Cardiff- solo show |
2011 | Castle Galleries Birmingham - solo show |
2011 | J’adore Brighton - solo show |
2011 | The Bowie Gallery Totnes Devon |
2011 | Artica Galleries - 6 solo shows |
2010 | Louise Dear studio|gallery Totnes Devon |
2010 | Artisan Gallery Kingston on Thames - solo show |
2010 | Castle Gallery Harrods London - solo show |
2010 | Westover Gallery Bournemouth - solo show |
2010 | Castle Gallery Exeter - solo show |
2009 | Louise Dear studio|gallery Totnes Devon |
2009 | The Brownston Gallery Devon - solo show |
2009 | The Bowie Gallery Totnes Devon |
2009 | AAF London and New York |
2008 | Roland Lewinsky Gallery Plymouth Devon |
2008 | AAF London Paris Amsterdam Glasgow |
2008 | Art at Five Brighton W. Sussex |
2008 | Louise Dear studio|gallery Totnes Devon |
2008 | Regatta Fine Art Norfolk |
2007 | Bel Ami Gallery Honiton Devon - solo show |
2007 | The Picture Room Dulwich London |
2007 | AAF London and New York |
2007 | The Dittisham Open Dittisham Devon |
2006 | AAF London Glasgow Bristol |
2006 | The Green Dulwich London |
2006 | Wills Art Warehouse Fulham London |
2006 | Rumour Totnes Devon |
2006 | Flowers Gallery Emsworth Hampshire |
2006 | Red Propeller Kingsbridge Devon |
2006 | Gallery 22 Totnes Devon |
2005 | AAF London and New York |
2005 | The Rill Centre Buckfastleigh Devon |
2005 | Collyer-Bristow Gallery Bedford Row London |
2005 | Heals Tottenham Court Road |
2005 | Artspace Totnes Devon |
2005 | Stewart Gallery Dartmouth Devon |
2005 | Coombe Gallery Dartmouth Devon |
2005 | Flowers Gallery Brighton |
2005 | Rumour Totnes Devon - solo show |
2004 | AAF London New York Sydney Glasgow |
2004 | Davidson’s Mount Street London |
2004 | Wills Art Warehouse Fulham London – 2 shows |
2003 | AAF London New York |
2003 | Envelope Gallery Arundel W. Sussex |
2003 | The Mill Studio Arundel W. Sussex |
2003 | Wills Art Warehouse Fulham Road London |
2002 | AAF London New York |
2002 | Fresh Art Business Design Centre London |
2002 | Otter Gallery Chichester W. Sussex |
2002 | Beatrice Royal Gallery Eastleigh Southampton |
2002 | Phoenix Gallery Brighton |
2001 | AAF London |
2001 | Royal Academy London |
2001 | Otter Gallery Chichester W. Sussex |
2001 | Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum Romsey Hampshire |
2001 | Beatrice Royal Southampton - solo show |
2000 | AAF London |
2000 | Beatrice Royal Gallery Eastleigh Southampton |
Louise’s earliest memories are of her incredibly happy family life spent in such exotic locations as South Africa & the Far East. At the age of six the family returned to England & set up home in a small country village in the beautiful Hampshire countryside. Initially intending a career within the fashion business, Louise studied fashion design at Medway College of Art & Design yet with the spirit of adventure having been instilled so young, at the age of 21, she purchased a 1963 Bedford ambulance, painted it Honey Pink and promptly set off to see the world. Her time was spent working whilst consuming the sumptuous splendours of Europe; Spain, Portugal, Italy, France and dipping an inquisitive toe into the divine indulgence of North Africa. Returning home in 1987, Louise bought a three month return ticket to India yet did not return to England for a further seven years. Her adventures took her travelling extensively throughout South East Asia, continually gorging on it's extreme delights until eventually arriving in Darwin, North Australia. From here she travelled overland to Sydney where she & her partner set up home and Louise worked as an Exhibition Designer for Lego, Australia. In 1993 Louise came back to her roots, gave birth to her greatest creation, her daughter Lama and returned to full-time education. Now settled in the picturesque town of Totnes, Louise has been working as a professional artist since graduating from University College Chichester in 1998. Her fabulous adventures continue to enspire her work, creating paintings which are vibrant, passionate and intense with a sensual eroticism which are both provocative yet at the same time, demure.
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