Charlotte Loukes Art
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Charlotte Loukes Art
@loukesfineart.bsky.social
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Painting the light and shade. ‘Not all who wander are lost’ JRR Tolkien. 🌿 Artist living and working in West Sussex, UK 🕊️ charlotteloukes.com
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Sometimes creating is such a joy, you lose yourself but in a good way. It’s the way I feel when walking somewhere new.
#notallwhowanderarelost #natureandart #painting
I love the romance of an empty country road. They may not take me to far off lands on our island but they hold the promise of adventure.
The broadleaf trees create avenues of light and shade, bends in the road hide the destination.
If it was a new world, would you be excited or afraid?
Morning
Watercolour, gouache & wax crayon on paper
Early morning walks to avoid the heat. We’re lucky to have ancient footpaths in the South Downs, a part of the UK inhabited for thousands of years.
#southdowns #footpath #dogwalk #fineart #originalart
Super proud to be asked to exhibit four paintings at The Gallery at Horsham Museum: Summer 2025
It’s a lovely museum & gallery, with free entry it’s definitely worth a visit.
#artexhibition #watercolour #art
Another sketch of an empty road. Remembering the freedom of learning to drive and the feeling that I could go anywhere. The childish idea that the road was endless with adventure round the corner like a Tolkienesque quest.
Sketchbook prep for a new series of paintings. I love the tree tunnels in West Sussex
#artistsonbluesky #painting #fineart #artcollector #artgallery #sussex #uncanny #inbetween
Today I’ve started a new painting - see below, started listening to Broken Veil (brilliant) and pondered new Pope (not religious but hoping he’ll be a good man).
#liminal #uncanny #painting #artistsonFlashes #brokenveil #landscape #contemporaryart
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🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤

Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱

www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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Starting the process of finding a visual language for buildings. Cathedrals, churches and abbeys call me to me with their hidden intricacy, dizzying angles and otherworldly function.
#cathedral #chichester #watercolour #architecture #art #artistsonFlashes #sussexliving #sussexartist #artforsale
I’m looking for exhibition space in or around Petworth. Let me know if you have space or know of anything. #petworth #fittleworth #pulborough #midhurst #exhibitionspace #artcollector #artforsale #painter #localart #sussex #chichester #haslemere
How are they so perfect 😍
Study for a landscape. I’ve realised I need to re-introduce canvas to my practice. I love this view - full of nature’s messy, beautiful plan
#duncton #sussex #southdowns #landscapeart #artistsonflashes #contemporaryart
Detail from an early Spring morning sketch. The light at this time of year is intoxicating, you can almost hear the new buds popping open. #artonflashes #artist #sketch
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Our land has likely been covered in trees since the last Ice Age

The ghosts of our ancestors existence, living in and relying on it for food and shelter, are everywhere

Ancient Woodland is sacred earth

Ancient Woodland is more England than anything
The way ahead can be exciting or terrifying. As Spring starts to pop up hopefully shoots I wish for 🕊️

#artonFlashes #woodland #wayahead #hopenothate #peacenow #ceasefirenow #landscapeart #sussex #petworth
The way between
Navigating through, two sides, taking the safe path. Things that are spinning round my head.
#fineart #womeninart #division
That’s so kind, thank you ☺️