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Starch and Hedgehogs is a collaborative exhibition by myself and Artist/inventor William Waterhouse.
This year’s show will combine pattern, form and mechanical toys.
We welcome you to our home.
Email luizaloakes@hotmail.com waterhousewilliam@yahoo.co.uk waterhousewilliam.com
Exhibiting space
Flat 5. 12–14 St Marys Road SE15 2DW
I will be at the Crafty fox market on 11th April 2015 in Peckham's Busey building. Pop along and see me and my stall.
For more details click Crafty fox market #craftyfoxmarket
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