Contemporary Landscapes
My inspiration is drawn from experience of landscape, the vastness of sublime locations across the UK and beyond. Finding solitary places providing time and space for reflection, musing almost meditating as I observe nature’s majesty. Spending time in the landscape alone permitting me to feel and respond emotionally is essential to me.
Working with gathered information and written notes made on location, merging them together with memory and thoughts leading to finished works in the studio.
My Process
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LANDSCAPE IS KEY
Interpreting landscape with intuitive mark making, making visual our emotional responses to time and space is key in my work. It is a beautiful dance between reality and imagination.
My process always begins in the landscape, working quickly, intuitively to record my emotional response to place and feeling; mark-making is fluid, spontaneous often using found objects, twigs, bracken and grass, releasing me from visually representing the landscape; making many sketches as I absorb the atmosphere, the beautiful elemental rawness of the natural world. -
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
In the studio, my process slows using mixed media or oil - my techniques become considered, mediative and reflective.
Many layers of paint can be built up and removed in an ever changing image before it resolves itself to a piece that I feel has something to say; it is a poetic dance between surface and intuition.
Titles of my works reflect a moment, a feeling, a response in time rather having a direct link to place, offering an introduction to you to interpret with your own thoughts.
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“There is an openness and healing in Louise Bougourd’s delightful paintings of Dartmoor that allow the viewer to lose themselves in the light and colours…”
〜 SOPHIE KAZAN - Art Minute
