Louise Penrice is a visual artist working with handmade paper, plant fibres, language and performance. Her practice explores how meaning emerges through the interplay of the conscious and subconscious, the rational and the intuitive. Drawn to thresholds, traces and fleeting encounters, she investigates what comes into view yet remains partially beyond reach.

 

Using locally gathered materials including nettle, oak and cow parsley, she makes paper as a process of listening and collaboration with place. Through pulping, layering and transformation, she attends to how materials carry memory, agency and the passage of time. Decay, growth and change are active participants in the work.

 

Influenced by her background in personal and leadership development, Louise creates works that invite embodied attention, curiosity and reflection. Her practice considers how we make sense of ourselves within ecological, temporal and material systems that exceed human perception and control.