Contact

Contact

Email studio@louisaloakes.com

Call +44 07795247743

Host a Block Printing Workshop for you

Alongside hosting monthly block printing workshops from my home/studio in Peckham, London UK I also host workshops for organisations.

I have run various workshops around the country and I would be more than happy to host one for you. I can tailor workshops to your particular needs

Please feel free to get in touch if you would like to discuss a Block Printing Workshop.

Stockists

Selected works by Louisa are available as wholesale.

Franks | 65 Harbour St, Whitstable CT5 1AG

Provision | London

Camden Art Centre | Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG

Haarlem | Derbyshire DE4 4ET

Bluecoat Display Centre | Liverpool

Louisa Loakes

Louisa’s work blends elements from her fine art practice and her intuitive approach to textiles. During her time studying at Wimbledon School of Art, Louisa developed a particular interest in abstract painting, which continues to ground and guide her work across a range of mediums.

Working from her studio in Peckham, Louisa’s practice is focused on the beautifully simple, slow art of hand-carved block printing. Having spent many years researching the craft, she draws particular inspiration from the processes involved in traditional Indian block printing, and her practice interweaves Eastern folk art traditions with forms and patterns familiar to western languages of abstraction. As a self-taught block printer, she approaches fabric like a painting - or one of her charcoal drawings - creating delicate, twisting patterns that repeat themselves across its surface. Distinctive in their simple use of geometric form, monochromatic palette and signature dash of hand-painted colour, Louisa’s hand-carved block printed patterns are charged with a human touch, the irregularities that appear in the printing process giving each piece a distinct energy and identity.

Louisa Loakes Block Printing Workshops are available through her website along with her hand block printed fabric per metre, hand block printed cushions and more recently her etchings.

Louisa Loakes | Peckham, london