Louisa McElwain's pure love of 'the doing' of plein air.

[Gary Hilton Walker]

I’m sure many have heard of Louisa McElwain, she is a wonderful exponent of the actual pleasures of doing on site painting as opposed the finished work that we tend to focus on a whole lot more. Her huge spontaneous canvases are far cry to working the more deliberate and detailed smaller size in methods, no more important, just different. Be talking about the Englishman David Curtis and Wolf Kahn soon in that regard, other great devotees of working out of doors, but for those who haven’t - take a look at Louisa’s link here. Her inspirational ways are really contagious to get you to leave other important strategies for creating great art for a while, and out of doors and into the ‘mix’, to fall in love with pure plein air, as I have done recently.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIbOQwuh2fk