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It is of absolute importance to me that all my landscapes are painted from life.  The repeated interaction with the scene unfolds all the possibilities of light and pattern on offer.  It also allows me to become fully immersed in the zone of space  that I personally occupy, outside of all the stimuli that we are all constantly subjected to. Every artist in that moment is building a piece of their perception of the world and in that respect, collectively, we become authors of the view of our time. 

Painted during a time of family loss, where reflections on the end season of life were heavily dwelt upon. 

Louisa Trotter is a landscape oil painter working principally in the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland. Her focus of subject matter largely rests on trees and seas with the majority of work painted en plein air rather than in the studio.  Ten years after finishing a traditional training in Florence she by chance met with a book of Monet’s early landscape paintings. This utterly altered her perception of the previous relationship that she had had with nature, light and colour. 

"Painting a landscape outside allows my world to unfurl.  My life’s strand tied to the roll of seasons, regardless of  health, family and world events.  What one gains from the experience of being in the open is the patience to watch the slowly rolling change of the minutiae of life, not just year by year but by seconds and minutes.  To feel a working  part of the evolution and  gargantuan flow that binds up the entire universe, not separate from but as and within. It is to be a chronicler who steps outside the forward movement of time noticed by the collective of humanity and events that that “shape” our world.  The media doesn’t have access to my eyes the moment that sunlight glows through yellow leaves, turning them gold and not even my nose when a rutting roe buck silently jogs passed without seeing me.  I can offer myself peace despite the inescapable demands of my existence.  And I hope that those paintings can find their way to offering peace to others.”

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