About Louisa Corr

Louisa Corr is a portrait, still life and abstract landscape artist based in Cambridge and London, UK. She is working on a series of abstract paintings that are designed to be visually pleasing and also ambiguous in relation to subject matter. They can be enjoyed on a purely visual level, with subtle surface qualities modulated with vibrant colours and often partially revealed through layers of more restsrained tonality. These effects are created by a combination of selective scraping back and adding accents with an assortment of brushes, sponges and palette knifes. These works are often designed with a carefully structured composition encouraging the viewer to interpret each painting in a personal way.

Louisa also takes great pleasure in developing her portraiture work and has produced a series of large-scale, dramatic celebrity portraits. They are quite uinique in stylistic terms and represent a fusion of realism with design and pattern based elements. They are painted in acrylics, metallic colours and enamel with the addition of a final protective layer using acrylic matt medium. Flowers are a constant theme in Louisa's painting and she skilfully incorporates natural forms in many of her pieces.

She was born in North West Germany and moved to Doha, Qatar where she had a series of exhibitions showcasing her 'Middle Eastern' series of abstract cubist paintings. These paintings captured the intense light and heat of the desert sun, reflected in the architectural shapes of mosques and minarets. These works often include striking sunsets which she represents with overlapping layers of translucent and opaque acrylic glaze. 

Louisa Corr was selected as a wildcard artist on the Sky Arts TV Landscape Artist of The Year 2015 in which she painted Waddesdon Manor and was interviewed by Frank Skinner.