Name Louise Dear | ||
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Education University of Chichester | ||
Artist, Louise Dear
Louise Dear (born 1963 in Hampshire, England) is a professional contemporary artist who was signed to fine art publisher, Washington Green in 2010. Louise is now signed to Buckingham Fine Art.
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Biography
Initially intending a career in fashion, Louise studied fashion design at Medway College of Art & Design. At the age of 21, she traveled around the world in a vintage pink ambulance named Burtha, visiting Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia, where she settled for 7 years working as an exhibition designer.
In 1993 Dear returned to the United Kingdom for the birth of her daughter,who features in many of Louise's works, Lama-sea Dear on 17 March. She attended University College Chichester and graduated in 1998 with a vvatious passion for the arts and her emerging distinctive style . Her works have been shown in museums, the Royal Academy, and in exhibitions in England, United States and Australia. Dear lives with her daughter, Lama-sea Dear, in Totnes,
"""I am a painter with a simple ambition… to create beautiful paintings. I make large, contemporary, figurative works. I am passionate about colour, shocking, vibrant and intense, continually exploring the power it has to invade our senses and influence our emotions. I work on large sheets of prefabricated aluminium, priming the surface then throwing, rubbing, pouring and dripping inks and dyes, glitter and glosses, to form a background. This is then sanded, scratched and distressed, depending on what image will be overlaid. I continually experiment with a multitude of materials, seduced by their substances, fascinated with their movement, individual textures and how they respond to one another. As the painting evolves, I become intrigued with the marks, how the line within a magnified face or body, organically flows. It is as though the image has, at this stage, become a vehicle for the marks. Selecting elements from a photograph and magnifying them to such an extent, creates a new dynamic. The finished pieces are stylised and ordered, the line defining the independent sections of colour and texture. My subjects exist on many levels, portraying innocence yet also the lack of it. The children are story book beautiful, their unique spirit captured and immortalised in that perfect state. By securing a tender moment or snatches of childhood memories, they are incredibly sensual, captivating, reaching out to their viewer. My nudes are sensually erotic, beautifully demure yet subtly provocative. Influenced by Utamaro and the artists of the ‘floating world’ and more recently their influence on the Art Deco period of the early 20th century I am a painter in love with painting; with a passion and urgent need to create."""
Commissions
In July 2011, Louise was commissioned by Alfa Romeo to create a collection of art influenced by the Alfa Romeo Mito.
Also, in July 2012, Louise was commissioned by Castle Galleries to create an artwork that would feature on a hat to be worn at Ladies Day, Ascot, England. The hat was 3 ft tall, featured a design based on a self-portrait and was scented.