Louisa Burnett-Hall

Born 1965, Louisa Burnett-Hall spent her childhood in the chalk valleys of Hampshire, moving to Scotland to study Fine Art at Edinburgh. There she painted her first landscapes inspired by the rich colours and rolling hills of the lowlands. In 1990 she left the UK to paint in Paris. Her series of fish paintings began in the late 1990's, where she explores light, movement and the relationship of beings in and with their surrounding space.
Pepites
Oil on Canvas (100x100cm) £1100
Summertime
Oil on Canvas (91x91cm) £1100
Translucence
Oil on Canvas (100x100cm) £1100
Inspired by the natural world, I explore the symbiotic flux of relationships between elements and time, trying to identify my perception of existence, that is, the relationship between the self and one's surroundings
Louisa Burnett-Hall
Yellow Web
Oil on Canvas (100x100cm) £1100
Flirt
Oil on Canvas (60x60cm) £640
Turn to the Light
Oil on Canvas (60x60cm) £640
My main inspiration is movement in water. Fascinated by the weaving bands of light and colour in some photos I had taken of Japanese Koï carp, I began a series of fish paintings. In them I explore light, movement and the relationship of beings in and with their surrounding space. Invisible, water becomes visible through the light captured on its surface and in its depths. The abstract, fluid quality of line is used to depict movement and connections, solid and liquid forms are juxtaposed; contrasting spatial directions mingle.
I have frequently chosen a square composition because the eye bounces off the edges of the painting and is brought into a circular dynamic.
Light and line interpret a spiritual internet of links and energy in this vision of the natural world.
Louisa Burnett-Hall


Louisa Burnett-Hall's CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Galerie London at The Avenue, London
2008 Galerie Atelier d'Emmanuelle, Liège
2006 Galerie Atelier d'Emmanuelle, Liège
2005 Ateliers 6e, Paris
2005 Inauguration Studio, Pantin
2004 Institut Arthur Vernes, Paris
2004 ACR, Paris
1998 Crédit Lyonnais, Paris
1996 TATF, Colmar
1995 JADH '95, La Colle sur Loup
1994 Le Pré Cadet, Paris
1991 S.C.A. Renault Coliseum, Paris
1989 Bloomsbury and Dixon Galleries, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Biennale, Mairie VI, Paris
2008 The Long Barn Summer Exhibition, Alton
2008 Salon Adaïs, Senlis
2007 The Smithfield Gallery, London
2007 Joint Exhibition, Mairie VI, Paris
2007 Galerie Atelier d'Emmanuelle, Liège
2007 Salon Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
2003-2007 Salon d'Automne, Paris
2006 The Lennox Gallery, London
2006 Hôtel de Ville, Le Chesnay
2006 Espace Saint Pierre, Senlis
2004 Galerie Wolmark Art, Paris
2004 L'Orangerie, Marcoussis 91, Essonne
2004 Hôtel de Ville, Paris
2003 Galerie "L'Ami des Lettres", Bordeaux
1998 Hôtel de Ville, Paris
1995 Galerie Espace 64, Paris
1993 Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London
1991, 1992 Holland Gallery, London
1992 Galerie Checura Forestier, Paris
Prizes
2008 Laureate Biennale Mairie VI, Paris
Collections
  Overseas Economic Development Fund, London
  Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
Education
1983-1988 M.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art
1988-1989 P.G.C.E. Art and Design, Institute of Education, University of London