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Artist - Louise Dionne

I then, in return, take photographs of the paintings, and digitise, enhance, and manipulate the images on the computer, with the intention of printing or painting these processed images back onto another canvas.

Many of my pieces are emotional expressions in paint. Others are the natural abstractions also in paint, and some represent and connect both the green and growing imperfections and the abstracted natural states, together with the emotional complexities and paths of life. Other pieces remain as the raw photographs in their original state.

I sometimes use my photographs for inspiration and other times I just paint straight onto the canvas with no plan. So, you could say I work in an unstructured way, with no intention, as often I do not know the meaning of the painting, or what it is reflecting until a while after it is finished. There will always continue to be deep discussion on what art is or isn't, my opinion is very simply, that some people paint.

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A little of what makes me tick...

'weeds are the best ...trust me..look closer....look at the way they struggle and entangle and are promoted as bad and troublesome.... yet the flowers of weeds and the contrasts of the stems and stalks are fascinating..the imperfections are more beautiful than the cultivated more obvious flower... paint the grass, the buttercup...the clover, the ivy..the undergrowth..the thistle... the herb robert..the tiny blue flowers in the meadows.. the bramble thorns ..the nettle leaves... the twines around eachother show such strength and vitality... ..big sigh! ... love the weed... and not the druggy sort either.....'

Since then I have run art classes after school for all ages, face painted, painted murals in peoples bedrooms, painted all sorts for pleasure and sold this and that to friends and colleagues. I am now working in a secondary school which is a Specialist Arts College within the Arts Faculty, and in between times look after my nearly grown up family.

My passion is now leaning towards the abstraction of natural forms. I have taken thousands of photographs of various subjects, mainly the green and growing kind. For some of my work this helps me to create pieces; using photographs to paint from at the beginning of the process.

About me -

My mother says when I was 9 months old she sat me up in my pram and gave me crayons and paper, and I began to scribble. She also allowed me to draw and scribble endlessly on my bedroom walls at home, throughout my childhood.

At around ages 7 - 10, I entered the annual art competitions at my school, and won first prize every year. So, I have always painted, sketched all my life for as long as I can remember.

I was the 'artist' at my grammar school, leading projects to decorate the classroom with various murals, and began helping other children with their pieces as well.

My dream as a child, for when I was as 'a grown up' was to be a poor artist with no money living and painting in an attic, preferably Paris. The closest I have got to that is painting in a loft room for a few years, in North West London where I live, so not quite the same but near enough. I went to Harrow School of Art when I was 16, but because I was too young to start the next degree course I left and went on to work and study dental nursing, so that I could have a bit of money.