Louisa Longstaff-Scales is a painter living and working in Norfolk, England. She is a graduate of Winchester School of Art where she studied fine art, painting and her work has been exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists, The Royal Academy and is held in private collections across the UK and abroad.
The paintings of Louisa Longstaff-Scales explore a personal narrative between the artist and the landscape. Moving through the landscape is a time for Longstaff-Scales to immerse herself in her inner world and exist as her own entity. The landscapes she paints combined with the context that Longstaff-Scales brings to them makes them largely autobiographical. The ideas and the thoughts she has and the matters that she is trying to resolve in this space colour her paintings. She makes suggestions to these in the landscape (using painterly marks and gesture), and in the titles. These paintings and titles become like small poems, offering the viewer clues to their origins and inviting them to find their own truth in the work.
