Fallaway day, 2023
The paintings of Louisa Longstaff-Scales explore a personal narrative between the artist and the landscape. Moving through the landscape is a time for Longstaff-Scales to immerse herself in her inner world and exist as her own entity. The landscapes she paints combined with the context that Longstaff-Scales brings to them makes them largely autobiographical. The ideas and the thoughts she has and the matters that she is trying to resolve in this space colour her paintings. She makes suggestions to these in the landscape (using painterly marks and gesture), and in the titles. These paintings and titles become like small poems, offering the viewer clues to their origins and inviting them to find their own truth in the work.