Chickenpox on Unicorns

Watercolour on paper
33cm x 41cm

Louise Saward is primarily a watercolour artist. She completed her degree in Fine Art at University of Northumbria at Newcastle 2001. Currently based in West Yorkshire, she paints from her little attic studio. She has been awarded a number of different awards in the last few years. Most recently won 2nd place for “New Life” art competition . Awarded 1st place The Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2019. Also awarded The Chaoshan Watercolour Award at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) 209th Exhibition (2021). In 2020 She was featured in Sky Portrait Artist of the Year.

Louise tries to embrace the transparency of watercolour which she finds fantastic and at the same time very challenging for painting skin. One of her main aims is to capture moments that will both engage, disturb, yet resonate with the viewer.

‘I only really started painting again about 6 and a half years ago. Never painted with watercolour before this but was very intrigued with how watercolour could be used to represent skin. No formal watercolour training but just had to feel my own way with a what i think is a very misrepresented and undervalued paint medium.’