Louisa Boyd

Louisa Boyd’s work centres around the persistent human desire to belong. She considers environment in her pieces and how we connect with the natural world to navigate and to establish a sense of place. Her abstract prints and sculptures feature celestial symbols, sacred geometry and cartographic imagery.

Louisa’s etching prints layer abstract, drawn imagery made with traditional drawing tools with more painterly marks; the map-like outcomes,  symbolic of navigation, are a visual fusion of historic and contemporary ideas. Louisa’s prints are then often used alongside marbled papers to create three-dimensional works with structures based on sacred geometry; the elements of mathematics that underpin the fabric of the world we exist within. Central to this body of work is Plato’s idea that the five regular forms, the Platonic solids, connect to the five elements of nature: earth, fire, air, water and aether.

Louisa Boyd is a multidisciplinary artist who works with paint, print and sculpture. Louisa has worked as a professional artist for over twenty years, exhibiting both nationally and internationally. Her pieces are included in private and public collections worldwide and are recognised regularly through prestigious juried exhibitions. She has shown on a number of occasions at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and was awarded the Great Art Prize at the Flourish Award in 2020. In 2023, Louisa was invited to exhibit at ‘Just Like Escher’, at Escher in the Palace, The Netherlands, and she was awarded a scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) to develop her printmaking practice.