About Lou

Lou Lauwerys is an English printmaker whose work is rooted in a love of traditional craft, botanics and the beauty of the handmade. With a background in graphic design, she studied printmaking over a number of years while working in London, where she fell in love with the linocut process.

Today, Lou lives in Singapore with her husband and daughters, just a short walk from the Botanic Gardens. The lush tropical landscape has become an endless source of inspiration, opening her eyes to new patterns, forms and textures. Her work is a way of connecting with this new home, translating the shapes and rhythms of Singapore’s landscape into original works of art. Traveller's palms, rain trees, frangipani and hornbills are favourite subjects. 

Every linocut is made slowly and by hand. Lou carves each design into a lino block, rolls ink across its surface and individually presses each print using a baren. The process is deliberately analogue: no two prints are ever quite the same with subtle variations in ink, pressure, texture and patina.