Louis Hawkins

Louis Hawkins work ranges across a number of disciplines including painting, film-making and poetry. As a painter his work is inspired by abstract impressionism and the St Ives movement, although he prefers to avoid any forms of categorisation and simply labels himself as an abstract colourist. Using a variety of techniques including frottage, loose boundary hydraulics and monotype, 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, UK where he experiments with the vocabularies of texture and colour using acrylic, gouache and watercolour. His paintings have been widely exhibited in galleries and private collections in London and the West Country.

Solo Shows
July 2003, Bucheli Gallery, Bath
June 2002, Royal United Hospital, Bath
April 2002, Waterstones Bookshop, Bath
July 1999, Jacksons Lane Arts Centre, London

Group Shows

June 2012 Fringe Arts Bath Festival
Sept 2011 Bath Artist Studios Open
Jun 2011 COLLABOATION (with May Jane Evans), Bath
Apr 2010 ‘Treasure', Milsom Place, Bath
Feb 2010 Oriel Ty Coch Gallery, Cardiff
Nov 2009 Royal and West of England Academy, Bristol
Nov 2008 Bath Artist Studios (with Mary Jane Evans), Bath
Mar 2008 Bute Space Gallery, Cardiff
Nov 2007 Royal and West of England Academy, Bristol
Feb 2007 Abstract3@The Awning Project, Bristol

Oct 2005, Royal and West of England Academy, Bristol
Oct 2005, Bath Network for Artists Open View, Bath
Mar2005, Fusion Gallery, Bristol
Jan 2005, Royal and West of England Academy Encore, Bristol
Oct 2004, Royal and West of England Academy, Bristol
July 2004, Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery,Bath
June 2004, Partial View curated by Matthew Collings, Bath
Oct 2003, Royal and West of England Academy, Bristol
June 2003, Bath Festival Art Fair, Bath
June 2003, Green Park Brasserie, Bath

Art Fairs
Jun 2006, Phoenix Gallery, London
Nov 2005, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
Sept 2005 Phoenix Gallery, The Design Show, LEC , London
May 2003 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol

Contact

07816 963877

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