Louisa Longstaff-Scales, ‘The Courageous North Sea’

Louisa Longstaff-Scales is a painter living and working in Norfolk, England. She is a graduate of Winchester School of Art where she studied fine art, painting and her work has been exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists, The Royal Academy and is held in private collections across the UK and abroad.

The work of Louisa Longstaff-Scales is largely autobiographical and explores personal narratives and storytelling within the context of the landscape. Sometimes Longstaff-Scales’ paintings are of a specific place and moment, and sometimes they are a conglomerate of landscape, like a dot to dot of a journey across land and memory. She explores themes such as the passing of time, the possibilities of consciousnesses, and human behaviour.

In her work Longstaff-Scales is taking comfort in finding the familiar and then trying to edge beyond it. During the making of the painting the process becomes as important as the ideas that birth it. These paintings and titles become like small poems which are equally rooted in the quiet charm of fleeting moments, personal interpretation, and a mortal response to the vast.