Louise Dear paints for one reason and one reason only: ‘to create beautiful paintings’. It’s a pretty good reason, I think we’ll all agree. Her use of colour is incredible and, despite the abstract nature of her paintings, her characters are so lifelike. Through her use of colour, she seeks to stimulate our senses and emotions – and she succeeds. The energy exuded by her paintings matches the energy she puts into creating them; Louise throws, rubs, pours and drips inks, dyes, glitter and glosses on to primed aluminium sheets and then sands, scratches and distresses them. The process seems violent but the outcome is beautiful. There are in fact many words to describe Louise Dear’s paintings: beautiful, vivacious, expressive, powerful. But, more than anything, they are FUN!
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