Louise has always loved drawing, she was always making pictures, books and writing stories, the rest of her family was also creative. Her art teachers at school were dreadful, which meant she did more creative things outside of school instead. She attended the Art Foundation course, where she found out she could do illustration at art school. Louise believes art is important for children as it’s a way of exploring the world and finding out who you are and what you’re interested in. She also believes that art should be taught in different ways in school, it should be more free and creative and i’s not valued as highly as it should be.
Louise attended Glasgow School of Art, although it was inspiring she struggled to find or niche or style. Her advice was that it’s OK to not have found your fully formed artistic style whilst you’re at art school. She now sees computer programmes as a tool rather than a hinderance. She can’t help but working all the time as it’s her passion and believes she should probably have more days off. It’s hard to develop your hobby into your job as you’re constantly thinking of ideas, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Louise thinks its quite lonely working from home, but social media helps a lot, it’s like a creative family across the world.
For the future she sees herself focusing on the designing and getting others involved for the accounts and logistics. Her job is quite exhausting as you don’t know where to stop, she has to take breaks an cycle round her town to have a brain cut off. It’s easier to be more productive in Summer when it’s lighter for longer, but Christmas is a very busy period. If Louise could have any other job she would like to be a part of the film industry. She is inspired a lot by other illustrators such as Nathalie Parain, Matisse, Hockney, but also loves contemporary designers such as Donna Wilson, Sukie Studio, Yellow Owl Workshop and illustrators like Kaye Blegvad and Alice Pattullo. Her best piece of advice to young creatives is to do it all the time and don’t give up.
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