Louisa’s etching prints layer abstract, drawn imagery made with traditional drawing tools with more painterly marks; the map-like outcomes, symbolic of navigation, are a visual fusion of historic and contemporary ideas. Louisa often uses her prints alongside hand-marbled paper in three-dimensional works, with structures based on sacred geometry; the elements of mathematics that underpin the fabric of the world we exist within. Central to this body of work is Plato’s idea that the five regular forms, the Platonic solids, connect to the five elements of nature: earth, fire, air, water and aether.
