Hornby Festival Group Show 2017 brought four Hornby Island Artists together to mentor local children over twelve months to produce a collaboration of work for the ten day exhibit in the Hornby Island Community Hall. Louisa Elkin worked with one local teen and over the time she mentored her in painting in oils, in building a painting, use of materials and creating strong composition while working “en plein air” and from source photos.
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Time To Be I,Diptych, oil on canvas, 18" by 18", 2017, private collection
Time To Be II,Diptych, oil on canvas, 18" by 18", 2017, private collection
"Our Beauteous Trees" Helliwell Provincial Park oil on canvas 20" by 24" 2015
Diptych, "Mist", oil on canvas, 10" by 10", 2014, private collection
Diptych, "Calm", oil on canvas, 10" by 10" ,2014, private collection
"Mushroom Beach" In Helliwell Provincial Park, oil on canvas, 20" by 24", 2017 Private collection of Jo Platt
"Cliffs of Mushroom Beach", oil on canvas, 12" by 12", 2017, private collection of Jo Platt
" New South Wales Farmland" ,oil on canvas, 20" by 24", 2017, Private collection
"Little Trib Beach Logs", oil on canvas, 12" by 12", 2014
The ALR Solo Show at the Hornby Island Arts Council Gallery in 2018 was inspired by the food insecurity issue in British Columbia and by the erosion of the Agricultural Land Reserve to golf courses, wineries and marijuana growing operations, which qualify as agriculture but do not grow food for the people. Aerial photographs of British Columbia food growing lands were used as sources to abstract then paint. The idea of a tiny footprint, and housing people in Tiny Homes, was the inspiration for a series of tiny paintings and the tiny acrostic poems naturally came after. The tiny paintings were each four or five inches by 6 or 7 inches.
Each poem began with the letters ALR. An example is:
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"Flooded Fields", oil on paper, 10" by 12", 2017, ALR Solo Show, Hornby Island Arts Council Gallery, Hornby island, B.C. 2018
"Fields of Food", oil on canvas, 30" by 34", ALR Solo Show, Hornby Island Arts Council Gallery, Hornby island, B.C., 2018
Gallery View, ALR Solo Show, Hornby Island Arts Council Gallery, Hornby island, B.C., 2018
"Fields From Above" ,oil on paper ,4" by 9", 2018 ALR Solo Show Hornby Island Arts Council Gallery, Hornby Island, B.C.
"Flax Fields" , ALR Solo Show, Hornby island Arts Council Gallery, Hornby island, B.C., 2018, private collection
"Winter Fields", guache on paper, 4" by 5.5", ALR Solo Show, Hornby Island Arts Council Gallery, Hornby island, B.C. , 2018, private collection
Commission " Pender Island 1935 Cabin", pen and ink on paper, 10" by 11", 2020, private collection
"Little Trib Beach Sandstone", pen and ink on paper, 9" by 11", 2017
"Little Trib Bay Sandstone Sculpture", pen and ink on paper, 6" by 8", 2016
" Meditation of Misha", portrait, pen and ink on paper, 12" by 14", 2014
Design, pen and ink on paper, 5" by 7", 2014
Heart Design in Red and Green, pen and ink on paper, 5" by 7", 2014
Women Friends in Green and Red, pen and ink on paper, 5" by 7", 2014
Beacon Hill Park Camus Field watercolour, 7" by 9", 2020
Harling Point watercolour study, 10" by 12", 2020
Helliwell Park North Beach I, watercolour, 8" by 9", 2020, private collection
Helliwell Park source photo
Helliwell North Beach II, watercolour , East to Lasquiti Island, 8" by 9", 2020, Private collection
Helliwell North Beach III, watercolour, North view, 8" by 9", 2020, Private collection
Dallas Road Beach, watercolour, 8" by 9", 2021, Private collection
LB , oil on canvas, 14" by 18", 2015
Class model, David Goatley Portrait Class series, oil on canvas, 24" by 36", 2015
Misha, oil on canvas, 20" by 24", 2015
Class model, oil on canvas, 24" by 36", 2015
Class model, oil on canvas, 24" by 30", 2015
Watercolour Paintings and Studies 2020-2021
Louisa often gathers her thermarest chair and painting supplies and sits in a natural setting to paint, en plein air, a study to later abstract further back at her studio.