Louise Slobodan

Louise was born and raised on Vancouver Island. As a young adult she attended the Vancouver School of Art, graduating in 1970 with honors in Printmaking. She lived in England for a number of years and worked as a technician at the Southampton College of Art then returned to the lower Mainland. In Vancouver she shared a number of different studios, the last one being TextileContext on Granville Island. Returning to Vancouver Island in 1994 she has continued working in the textile medium making textile art for the wall. More recently after taking a Solar Printing workshop she was determined to return to printmaking. She now is a member of the Ladysmith Printmakers and Printmakers of the SalishSea. For Current Threads 2024 Louise has done a number of high contrast collograph prints. They have been cut up, reassembled and arranged on a grid of door screening to produce  Madrone - On the Grid.

Statement

Texture and pattern one finds in nature are my focus and images from the Island forests and beaches provide the subject matter. Most of my artist career was spent working in the textile medium, first screen printing on fabric followed by painting, shibori dying and quilting. I majored in Printmaking at the Vancouver School of Art and more recently have returned to the Print Studio where I enjoy printing on both paper and fabric. I am particularly excited by the textures and embossing one gets when printing with collagraph plates and printing on heavyweight papers.