“My work expresses the cyclic rhythms in water and the environment, exploring connections between visible and invisible layers. A subject in perpetual motion with geopolitical as well as metaphysical dimensions, I’ve always been drawn to water for the way it brings together light, life and movement. It’s both challenging and freeing to work from something that is essentially invisible.”

 

Drawing is a fundamental part of Louisa’s practice unlimited to a particular surface - she draws on canvas and paints on paper. Favourite sites are rivers, pools, mountains and the sea where she seeks out the abstract qualities of line and movement in nature. After collating information and sketching in situ, she continues her practice in the studio. Working mainly with ink and acrylic, she pours and ‘writes’ across the surface, shifting between the figurative and abstract, aiming to capture the subject’s essence.

 

Currently incorporating satellite imagery and scientific recordings of the sea, she explores notions of visual language used to describe patterns of movement and change. Combining data with observational sketching and photography, her work addresses concerns about climate change, questions our place in nature, and emphasizes the urgent need for greater humility and respect for our planet.

 

Louisa Burnett-Hall is a British-born artist who moved to France after obtaining a Fine Art MA from Edinburgh University. Awarded with the Médaille de la Ville de Paris, she exhibits widely in France, the UK, Belgium and China.

 

She lives and works in Paris.