Louise Lacaille

Louise Lacaille is a painter whose work explores curiosities within natural and earth sciences.

Based in her Edinburgh studio, she is drawn to those subjects that lie at the edges of perception or

comprehension: fleeting phenomena, strange lifeforms, and subjects whose scale or complexity

makes them difficult to observe directly. These offer the greatest opportunity for ambiguity and

creative interpretation, allowing elements of abstraction, mark-making and scale to become

paramount. A graduate of Camberwell College of Art & Design (2008), Lacaille has long been

preoccupied with the materials and processes of oil painting. Much of her work emerges from a

desire to hone or experiment with a particular technique, allowing process to guide outcome.

Her paintings seek to evoke the sense of wonder or calm we may experience when encountering

fragile, easily overlooked phenomena of the natural world – the moments that verge on the magical.