MACLEAY ISLAND  QLD

Ph. 0417 552 73

louise@ozsavant.com

Growing up in Country New South Wales, being creative and feeling connected to the earth became part of who I am.   I have been involved in some form of creative endeavour my entire life.  Creative skills outside the fine art domain include, textile art, fashion design, knitting, crotchet, interior design, house design and landscaping.

It wasn't until I turned 30 and my children were young, that I considered Fine Art as more than just something I did.  

I started a private art class with a wonderful mentor Ken Raffe.   When I  first joined the Thursday art group it was purely to get some interaction with people of similar interest and to learn more about composition and refinement of my  technique.  It turned out to be a real privilege to work alongside so many talented people.   Ken a master artist in his own right is  singularly responsible for my taking up sculpture, (if anything I considered myself a painter) he just kept nagging me to give it a go and from my first piece I was hooked, though I still draw all the time and paint when the mood strikes at present sculpture is my passion. 

I can appreciate all forms of art, but I do have my favourites artists and those that influence me.  Among them Joseph Wright of Derby, Albrecht Durer, Salvador Dali, Rembrandt, Norman Lindsay, Michelangelo, Vincent Van Gogh, Dave McGary, Bev Doolittle. 

The creation of a work of art for me involves that altered state of consciousness that excludes everything else.   The Elements Series and Black Madonna are currently being cast.   I am working on a series of family portraits.    I am available for pastel portrait and sculpture commissions.  The future goal is to produce a larger version of Black Madonna.

 Life is such a learning curve.   Self education never stops.  A bit of a gypsy, at present I live on Macleay Island in Queensland.