About Me and Contact

About Me

For further information, please contact:

Louise Gains Contemporary Art - All Art-Work available as A3 Prints with archival inks, 50 Euro free post worldwide

Email: louisegains@hotmail.co.uk

BUY A4 size Images Downloads from the Nearly Nice World Series for £1.00 on http://www.nearlyniceworld.com

See more of my Art-work on

http://www.mousespottersguide.com

http://www.behance.net/LouiseGains

http://www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/LouiseGains

http://www.artreview.com/profile/LouiseGains

http://www.myspace.com/louisegains

I was born in the south of England and after school went to Brighton Art College. I was fascinated by the natural world, the forms and structures of animals and plants, and I continued my exploration of nature in my subsequent work, both 2D and 3D.

Digital Art

I love is my MacBook Pro computer, I have totally taken to exploring the world with this wonderful experience of creativity. Working in layers from my own photographs and scans, I produce collages of my contact with the world. My imagination runs riot, I can fly, dive, swim and climb within the layers and textures I find. Hooray for the computer world.

Paintings

I use oil sticks and acrylics on my canvases, and I texture the images with wire brushes and even tree-branches and brambles - anything to cram my paintings with the verdant confusion I see around me.

After moving to Wales in the early 1980s I discovered a landscape completely new to me - no more chalky Downs overlooking the sea, here was a darker world to explore - a moodier, more tangled forest of images.

The wild places in the Wye Valley still hold traces of earlier, mythic days, and as I walk by the river I see so many things to paint - clouds moving up the estuary, mist rising from the forest near Tintern, lost paths near forgotten mine workings, the golden light that fills the dips and hollows between the ridges toward Abergavenny - and always the burrowing tangle of the age-old hills and hedges.

CV Louise Gains.

DOB: 5/12/53.

Bournemouth Art College Foundation year 1. Brighton Art College Foundation year 2. Brighton Art College Graphic Design, 3 years.

1974: BA. Graphic Design 2.1. 1975: Won Toy Design competition for Seven Towns toy company, London. 1976: Toy Designer, Tony Toys of Brighton, new designs, fabric design, template production, initiated spray decoration, Trade Fair display design. 1979: Deans Toys of Pontypool. new designs, fabric design, set up spray decorating department, template production, budget control, factory production runs, catalogue design and production, Trade Fair stand design and set up. 1982: HTV trainee Set Designer. 1983: Graphic Designer for Unique Solutions ltd, Computer Database suppliers.

Freelance work from then on.

1990-95: Soft toys and clay models for Hanna Barbera feature film Once upon a Forest. Prop-making for Bumper Films, Bristol. Sold Book Idea to Quarto Book packagers, London.
Ran own Studio within The Old Wool Barn, Cowbridge, selling papier-maché sculptures, etc. Paintings and prop making for the BBC. 1995-99: Further private commissions: 6ft Wire Dancers sculptures. Wire Lawn Ladies. Wire Sheep. Wire Herons. Prop-maker for TV and Industry (inc Netlon Sentinel). Prop-making for programmes including It’s a Knockout for Jackie Burgess Props, Cardiff. 1999: Ran my own studio, The Thin Tin Dog, Cowbridge. Commissions for wire and bronze sculptures. 2003: Ran my own studio at Taurus Crafts centre, near Chepstow. Sold paintings and sculptures. 2004: Designed and sold a range of Childrens’ Furniture to main Catalogue company. Designed and sold bed linen and bags after two solo-run NEC Trade Shows, Spring and Summer. 2005:Set up a small manufacturing unit to provide thousands of bags to the Museums of Wales. Also sold similar designs to several other Local Authorities.

2007: Wrote Features articles for Wye Valley Life magazine, plus a monthly Art piece called Private View. Started work on www.inyouri.com website for Selling and Trading Digital Art, launched November ‘08. I am the owner and Director of inyouri ltd. 2008:Featured in the Blank Media Collective e-zine blankpages Issue 5.
Created www.mousespotterguide.com at first just for fun, then when other Artists wanted to show work I opened it up to submissions. Artists are invited to create work based on the theme of Sugar Mice in Strange and Interesting Places. The Paper Mouse project is a spin-off project from mousespotters. I designed a 3D paper Mouse that can take a varied surface decoration. A Gallery show is planed for next year for this Paper Mouse project, and forty Artists from around the world are already taking part. I’m currently creating a Schools and Club pack using the paper mouse template for targeted activities, taking advice from several teachers who have the paper mouse templates to test within their schools. Joined BANA Arts (Bath Area Network for Artists) www.bana-arts.co.uk

Shows: 1993: Three large Mythical Animal wire sculpture at St David’s Centre, Cardiff, for a group show. 1999: Art Matters, Tenby, Brides. Herons (wire sculptures). 2000: The Pavement Gallery, Hay-on-Wye (Solo show). Wire sculptures, paper and wire sculptures. 2006: The Tack Room Gallery, Monmouth (Solo show), paintings series Wye Valley Hedges. 2007:Christmas Show, Denise Yapp Contemporary Art Gallery, Whitebrook, Monmouth. Fusion Gallery, Wooton-under-edge Gloucestershire, www.fusiongallery.biz SpreadArt.net selected me from the Saatchi site for their Website Gallery. Small Rays of Hope exhibition, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, www.rhondaschallerchelsea.com/small-rays-of-hope-exhibition.html#exhibition Entered a Digital Print, Flying Ant Day 1, which was sent as a Digital file to an Art

Printer near the Gallery in New York. They printed it out on to a metal sheet and delivered it. Took part in an International internet LIVE performance from the Private View of the Hope show. 2008:Washington Gallery, Penarth, Christmas show. www.washingtongallery.co.uk What a Dream exhibition, SooSoo Gallery Tallin, Estonia, group show. Entered an acrylic painting. www.whatadreamcatalogue.blogspot.com/ Ship of Fools exhibition, Yara, Australia, group show. Sent a customized model boat with digitally produced images as surface decoration. See Part 1 on site: shipoffools-shipofhope.blogspot.com Ship of Fools exhibition, The Ballarat Mining Exchange, Australia. Part 2 see video on site. Doing Strange Things To Toys exhibition, The Kitchen Gallery, Runcorn, group show. www.wrap2008.net Internet group show - still running.

Future shows: Applying to:

Little Europe, group show: “The big art exhibition with the little format”, Summer 09, Örebro, Sweden. http://konstframjandet-bergslagen.se Motion 2009, Music, Art and Film Festival. New Zealand. www.motionarts.co.nz

Accepted for: Doorway to Dignity. Bath. The purpose of this campaign is to make sanitation in developing countries feature prominently in the minds of the general public and major donors alike. www.whereverthenead.org.uk

Also a member of bana Bath Area Network for Artists http://www.bana-arts.co.uk

Find more videos like this on Brooklyn Art Project

Cut-Out-and-Make Mouse Spotters Guide, mouse. Go to www.mousespottersguide.com to find Sugar Mice in Strange and Interesting Places and to Get the Template to make up a Paper Mouse in a variety of designs.

STAR twinkle, Music by K Halley, Filmed by Louise Gains at Westonbirt Arboretum, http://www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt

39 Steps Pause In The Woods

39 Steps Project started by David Kilburn of 3c World, http://expatartsnetwork.ning.com Artist are invite to make their own 39 steps and put them on youtube, for more information contact louisegains@hotmail.co.uk Title them, 39 Steps, then your title and name.

Into the Light made for the Human Emotions Project run by Alison Williams on artreview.com

Halloween meets Sugar Mouse in Chepstow. Filmed by Roger Mitchell, Music by K Halley

Personally run & owned Websites:

www.louisegains-contemporaryart.com

www.inyouri.com

www.mousespottersguide.com

Active on these Arts Websites:

http://www.bloc.org.uk/3-m.html

http://www.bana-arts.co.uk

http://www.blankmediacollective.org/index.php/artists/work/BristolTelephoneBox/louise_gains/239

www.artreview.com/profile/louiseGains

www.brooklynartproject.ning.com/profile/LouiseGains

http://www.blankmediacollective.org/