LOUIS HAWKINS

Louis Hawkins work ranges across a number of disciplines including painting, film-making and poetry. As a painter his work is influenced by the abstract impressionists Mark Rothko and Gerhard Richter and the St Ives artists Patrick Heron and Roger Hilton. His work aims to detail visual memories and in particular the abstracted forms, textures and colour themes of dreams and the subconscious. He also draws on cartographic and sub aquatic images and forms to explore the planes and densities of elevation and altitude. He is based at Widcombe Studios in Bath, England where he experiments with the vocabularies of texture and colour using acrylic, gouache and watercolour. His paintings have widely exhibited in galleries and private collections in London and the West Country.