Louisa Trotter
 
Cedar of Lebanon after Arwen
 
Oil on Canvas
 
75 x 75cm 
 
Louisa completed a year diploma at Central St Martins before moving to Florence in 2003 to study portraiture at Charles Cecil Studio.  After three years she returned to the U.K where she worked on portrait commissions from both London and the South of Scotland.
 
In 2009 she moved to the Scottish Borders having made the change from portraiture to landscape painting in oil.  She paints the landscape en plain air in Scotland and Northumberland.
 
Although traditionally trained in a school dedicated to the practice of the Old Masters, Louisa is largely impacted by painters from the late 19th and early 20th Century. Monet and Klimt were influences in changing her colour palette, eliminating black in favour of ultra marine blue and burnt umber.   She continues to learn from those painters as well as being lead by  Zorn, Caspar David Friedrich and seascapes by Lowry.  They have all helped shape observations and assumptions she previously made about nature, light and colour.  It feels most natural to her to paint in the open air throughout the seasons.  In situ the character of the landscape has a chance to unfold and will often illuminate features that aren’t obvious at first glance.
 
2020: Exhibited at the Borders Art Fair.
2021: Exhibited at Bowhill House. A shared exhibition with Walter Dalkeith, Frippy Jameson and Julia Trotter
2022: Exhibited at the Borders Art Fair with Walter Dalkeith.
2022: Exhibited at Dalkeith Palace Inception 2
2023: Exhibited at Dalkeith Palace Inception 3
2024: Exhibited at the Borders Art Fair
2024: Exhibited at Dalkeith Palace Inception 4