Louise Sturgis b. 1962

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.

 

 

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