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Louise Lennon

Louise Lennon is an award-winning contemporary landscape artist. She studied art, fashion and textile design at the University of Ulster, Belfast in the 1990s. After pursuing a career in a different field, some years ago she started working as a professional artist. Since then, she has been exhibiting across Northern Ireland and working with local and international commercial galleries.

Lennon works in oil, and she also draws on her textile background to create mixed media art using batik and oil techniques. Her art is inspired by the local rural landscape and features impressionistic close and distant views of the countryside. Her composition focuses on the balance of light and dark,...

Louise Lennon is an award-winning contemporary landscape artist. She studied art, fashion and textile design at the University of Ulster, Belfast in the 1990s. After pursuing a career in a different field, some years ago she started working as a professional artist. Since then, she has been exhibiting across Northern Ireland and working with local and international commercial galleries.

Lennon works in oil, and she also draws on her textile background to create mixed media art using batik and oil techniques. Her art is inspired by the local rural landscape and features impressionistic close and distant views of the countryside. Her composition focuses on the balance of light and dark, positive and negative spaces, exploring a concept from Japanese art called notan. She is also influenced by how we perceive colour, colour theory, colour as both the subject and the medium; in particular by the work of the Impressionists, how they focused on light and shadow, moving away from hard lines, and enlivening their negative spaces with shadows mixed from pure hues of the opposite colour.

‘I grew up in a country village, surrounded by hills and lanes, quiet scenes that offered calmness and stability amid the turmoil of the Troubles. This has developed into a real appreciation of the countryside and its ability to bring you down to earth, muddy roads, rain, petrichor, winding lanes and derelict houses.’ Louise Lennon

Bio

BASED in County Armagh, Northern Ireland

AWARDS

2022 President's Award at the 'Ulster Women Artists Annual Exhibition', Belfast
2019 Anna Grant Award for Mixed Media Art at the 'Ulster Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition', Belfast

EDUCATION

1989 Foundation Course in Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1993 Degree in Fashion and Textile Design, University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland

SOLO EXHIBITION

2021 ‘A Short Walk’, Kloverhous, Moira, Northern Ireland

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024, 2023, 2022 ‘Gallery 545: Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland #5, #4 & #3’, Gallery 545 at the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 ‘Ulster Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition,’ Crumlin Gaol, Belfast, N. Ireland
2024 ‘Ulster Society of Women Artists Spring Exhibition’ (Diploma Holders and Prize Winners), Oriel Gallery, Antrim, N. Ireland
2024 ‘Shore Collective Annual Exhibition’, Oriel Gallery, Antrim, N. Ireland
2021 'Gallery 545 Group Exhibition', Gallery 545 at Blick Studios, Belfast (and online), N. Ireland
2021 ‘Sweeney’s Decent’, Shore Collective Group Exhibition, An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk, Ireland
2021 ‘Ulster Society of Women Artists Spring Exhibition’, online
2020 ‘Hiatus Group Exhibition’, Kloverhaus, Moira, N. Ireland
2020 ‘Ulster Society of Women Artists 63^rd Annual Exhibition,’ online
2020 ‘Down To Earth’, Ulster Society of Women Artists Group Exhibition, online

INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES

Currently represented by Saatchi Art Online