FISHERTON Mill Gallery is today (May 17) showcasing the latest works by an award-winning landscape painter.

Contemporary artist Louise Bougourd’s work explores the drama of wild spaces and our emotive relationship with the landscape.

This new and exclusive collection is inspired by Wiltshire’s uniquely beautiful water meadows, where five rivers meet at the medieval city of Salisbury in southern England’s rural heartland.

Her latest work, Within, runs from today (May 17) to June 14.

Her watercolour, oil and mixed media works immerse the viewer in the beauty of open spaces, amid the colours and energies of the changing seasons.

A Fisherton Mill Gallery spokesperson said: “Beginning her collections en plein air in the landscape, Louise fills sketchbooks with rapid responses in watercolour, ink and pastel.

“These visual impressions then inform larger works on canvas or panel at her studio, where energetic mark-making defines her practice.

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“This new and exclusive collection is inspired by Wiltshire’s uniquely beautiful water meadows, where five rivers meet at the medieval city of Salisbury in southern England’s rural heartland.

“Working from her own plein air sketches, and using a combination of graphite, charcoal, acrylic and oil paint, Louise creates semi-abstracted images full of atmosphere and colour, drawn from her visual and emotional response to this uniquely beautiful place, and emphasising the subtle interplay of viewer and inspirational view.”

The collection includes framed and unframed works on paper alongside a series of large-scale canvases.

There is also the opportunity to meet Louise next Wednesday (May 21) where she will be painting in the gallery all day, giving visitors the opportunity to discuss and see her working process.

Louise lives and works on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, and makes collections inspired by great British landscapes, from the raw beauty of the East Coast to the Atlantic edge of West Cornwall.

In 2022 she graduated from the acclaimed One Year Mentoring Course at Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall.

Her work has been exhibited at Mall Galleries London and at the Chelsea Art Society, and she has been shortlisted for Membership of the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Institution.