Overview

The paintings are about my return to a landscape that I have felt rooted in and inspired by all my life. They are an attempt to distill the physical, emotional and spiritual experience of being in a landscape that I have loved and carried in me as I have lived and worked and painted elsewhere... It was this landscape that inspired me to be an artist.

Born in 1962, British Post-War and Contemporary painter Louise Sturgis takes her environment as her subject. Sturgis lives and works in the Lake District where she lovingly observes the quiet pleasures of everyday life in her natural surroundings and transfigures them in paint. 


Working primarily with oil paint, either on canvas, board or paper, Sturgis’ studio practice is underpinned by drawing from life and her expressive use of warm muted tones enables her to enhance the atmospheric qualities of the landscapes she depicts. 


Sturgis’ artistic skills have been carefully honed over many years of both practising and teaching art. She initially taught art at Magdalen college school in Oxford and went on to become the head of Art at Ampleforth College.


Louise Sturgis trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and the Royal Academy Schools in London, where she won a Silver Medal for painting. She was a recipient of a Norwegian Government scholarship which allowed her to work for a year in Oslo. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, and the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has had one-person exhibitions in London, Oxford, Oslo and Bergen, She lives and works in Kentmere where she has recently established a teaching-studio.

 

 

Works
  • Louise Sturgis, oil on canvas, landscape of the Kentmere valley in the Lake District
    Over the mere I, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, oil on canvas, landscape of the Kentmere valley in the Lake District
    Over the mere III, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, oil on canvas, landscape of the Kentmere valley in the Lake District
    Over the mere II, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Artist Studio Shot, 2023
    Artist Studio Shot, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, oil on canvas, landscape of the Kentmere valley in the Lake District
    Farmhouse in Kentmere (Longhouses) II, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Studio Shot, 2023
    Studio Shot, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Farmhouse in Kentmere (Longhouses) IV, 2023
    Farmhouse in Kentmere (Longhouses) IV, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Artist Install Shot, 2023
    Artist Install Shot, 2023
  • British artist Louise Sturgis a farm with a chicken pen oil on canvas of Hartrigg II
    Hartrigg II, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Church Hill, Kentnere, 2023
    Church Hill, Kentnere, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Kentmere Valley, Lake District, 2023
    Kentmere Valley, Lake District, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, oil on canvas, landscape of the Kentmere valley in the Lake District
    Farmhouse in Kentmere (Longhouses) I, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, oil on canvas, landscape of the Kentmere valley in the Lake District
    Wall 1, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Artist Install Shot, 2023
    Artist Install Shot, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, oil on canvas, landscape of the Kentmere valley in the Lake District
    Wall 2, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Farm track, Kentmere, 2023
    Farm track, Kentmere, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Artist Studio Shot, 2023
    Artist Studio Shot, 2023
  • Louise Sturgis, Farmhouse in Kentmere (Longhouses) III, 2023
    Farmhouse in Kentmere (Longhouses) III, 2023
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