Welcome

Louisa Chase is a British artist and ecosomatic researcher.  She emigrated to Aotearoa (New Zealand) in 2004 and lived there for 18 years, returning to the UK in 2022.  She is currently based in rural North Lincolnshire with a studio at The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber.

​​Working across disciplines including walking, writing, ritual, movement, photography, foraging for natural materials and painting with handmade plant and earth paints, she works intentionally with duration and cycles. 

Her work is anti-spectacle, slow, quiet, and draws on practices  of witnessing and deep listening​, grounded in embodied research into what she describes as 'ancestral portals to knowing' - ways of being in the world that were once essential for survival - walking, working with plants as allies and medicine,  silence, rest, communion with land and natural cycles.

She foregrounds the knowledge of experts-through-experience and the intelligences of the more-than-human, and draws from traditional herbal medicine and plant connection practices.

​ Diagnosed with autism later in life, Louisa experiences the body-mind as a subtle receiver, a kind of antenna and fractal of the whole, picking up the visible and invisible, the tangible and intangible.

 She lives, works and creates in a seasonal and cyclic way and sees no separation between creative practice and life.