Lou Hillier – Artist and graphic designer who loves contrasts, distilling and reflecting the patterns and energy of nature and her surroundings in a flamboyant fun style.
Being raised less than a mile from the rugged North Cornwall coastline in the classic Cornish mining post-industrial landscape, where engine houses and spoil heaps are juxtaposed against the natural beauty of the sea, cliffs and wooded valleys influenced a desire to communicate vivid contrasts. Neutral tones and a shot of jewelist colour of the day-glo pink heathers and yellow gorse.
Formerly trained as a graphic designer at Falmouth School of Art with wide experience including the prestigious Conran Octopus Publishers she also recently studied for three years at Newlyn School of Art.
“The rediscovery of being “hands on”, after years of the sterile click of a mouse and the eye-strain of a screen has been a joy.”
Her work draws on her natural surroundings and extensive travels round the world on a Honda Dominator 650cc. Absorbing the landscape and symbolism of all aspects of the wide and varied cultures, from ceramics to textiles and even the colour of the dirt, this truly expanded her horizons and further fired her love of colour and contrast.