Louise has developed a unique technique in her textured oil paintings. Canvas and strings are applied to a stretched canvas; this is built up in texture and pattern, and then painted with a white undercoat before applying the colour.

These textured paintings pulsate with colour which is enhanced by their texture. They are best viewed, not in a gallery space where the light is controlled, but in a room full of natural light where the light will change over the day and the shadows created within the painting will also change.

The wildlife paintings really express a love of repeated patterns that exist in nature. They exploit the beauty that you find in the detail, for instance moss, the bark of the tress and the patterns in streams and in the sea. A lot of Louise's work delights in these almost subconscious patterns that so enhance our world.

Many of the pastels were painted en plein air. Louise finds this a loose and spontaneous medium. She uses both soft and oil pastels. These images are a small sample of her work in this medium.

The mixed media series show Louise's skill with many different mediums. They demonstrate a unique talent both in skill and original ideas. The abstracts show her interest in non representational work and are a natural development from her infatuation with pattern and colour.

Louise has an unrestrained curiosity and delights in the freedom of abstraction. She is not constrained by institutionalised expectations or even market demands, she is happy to mix her approaches and play with all forms of visual expression. This allows Louise to attempt all forms of the visual arts that she can access. Louise has ideas for installation art and large scale pieces that are waiting for an opportunity to emerge.

Louise is a self-taught artist, she hones in her skills with practice and observation. She is naturally inclined to pattern but enhances this with a love of colour. Her main efforts are now in her oil paintings but Louise uses her watercolour skills if a particular image asks for this medium. Louise takes great joy in the methodology of the watercolour medium and continues to develop her loose and semi-abstract style.

Because of Louise's interest in pattern and colour she is drawn to fabrics. She delights in luminous colour and dyed felts have vivid and intense colour. To Louise the colours of any substance create a palette to work from. Each substance has its own unique qualities that can be used and manipulated for a particular image.

With a natural talent Louise has a great sensitivity to the character and personality of the models themselves. Louise has an ability to express the mood of her model with an unaffected skill.

A collagraph print is similar to an etching, although the plate is usually made of materials that are much more vulnerable and so each plate will only print about 25 prints. The plate is made up of collaged materials which have been glued onto a firm plate which can be cardboard, hardboard or aluminium. The collage plate is inked using the intaglio method, leaving the recessions or indentations to hold the ink so that it will print when passed through the press.