Bio:
Before Louisa moved to Toronto, she was a primary school teacher in Hong Kong teaching art and showing her work in Hong Kong City Hall with friends. After she was graduated from Toronto School of Art in 2005, her work has been shown in Toronto frequently, including eight solo shows and two honorarium solo show which was sponsored by Toronto Art Council and Toronto Culture. She received five awards in different juried shows.
Artist Statement:
Her Work hovers between observation and imagination. Every week she paints models in art clubs or paints landscapes en plein aire. This discipline of observation in nature instills her with inspiration to work in her studio. Her love of Chinese poems also influences her to express lyrical feeling in her paintings. She learnt Chinese ink painting and Western oil painting techniques simultaneously in her early teens, so reconciling both worlds’ aesthetics has always been her goal. In this website, she is going to show both work from observation and imagination together, and let the viewer find out the relationship between them.