User:Louise Dionne

Louise Dionne is a visual artist based in North west London, UK.

When she 9 months old her mother sat her up in the pram and gave her crayons and paper, and she began to scribble. She also allowed her to draw and scribble endlessly on her bedroom walls at home, throughout her childhood. From age 7 - 10, Louise entered the annual art competitions at her school - Cannon Lane School in Pinner, Middlesex, and she won first prize nearly every year. Louise has always painted and sketched all her life. She was the 'artist' at her school - St. Mary's Grammar School for Girls in Eastcote, Middlesex, leading projects to decorate the classroom with various murals, and began helping other children with their pieces as well. She attended Harrow School of Art when she was 16, but was too young to start the degree course, so she went on enjoying art without a degree. She has run art classes after school for all ages, face-painted, painted murals in peoples houses and gardens, painted all sorts for pleasure and sold this and that to friends and colleagues. Louise worked in a secondary school in Pinner within the Arts Faculty for 15 years, which was a Specialist Arts College. She has taken thousands of photographs of various subjects, and has a special love for the green and growing (plants, flowers, trees and leaves), and for wildlife in general, especially birds (gulls, swans, blackbirds, pigeons, crows and geese). Louise has painted a large number of abstract emotional pieces over the years. She paints and draws portraits of people and animals, in particular - cats and dogs. Louise is now making video art, and also producing small movies of events, weddings, people, pets, parties, babies, promotional DVD's, films for websites, etc., She also makes websites that are very image-full.

Her unprofound opinion regarding the topic of 'Art' is very simply, that - 'some people paint', no more, no less. Photograph below is one of Louise's favourites, taken of the very unusual frost formation on December 12th 2012 on a tree outside her house in Northwood Hills.