“In my spare time I do a lot of painting,” she said. “I went to the PF+A sketch club in 2020 and that group was all about going into town after work, on a Wednesday or Thursday, and looking at architectural buildings and structures.”
Pictured: Louise says she has painted more than twenty establishments and hopes to eventually document them all through her work.
Louise said she used the opportunity offered by PF+A, who held several events, to get out and about during the pandemic: “I couldn’t travel and it was a good way of rediscovering Guernsey,” she said.
“Every week I would always end up drawing or painting a pub. It became a bit of a running joke!” The group held an exhibition in 2020 and this inspired Louise to expand her work.
“I started working not in a sketch book anymore but on a bigger scale and going back and redoing the venues and it has become a passion project,” she said.
“I’ve gone to a lot of pubs, some of them don’t even exist anymore, I’ve been speaking to landlords and getting the history about the buildings.
“Pubs have a lot of character, they are places that don’t seem to change.”
Louise is holding an exhibition of her work at the Sausmarez Park Folk Museum on 17 May – 24 June.
