Louisa Longstaff-Scales

Of My Time

Jackson's Art Prize 2026
Acrylic, Oil
Panel
100 x 100 cm

£3,200

“I paint the landscape to hold the parts of me I can’t hold by myself, The landscape holds the weight of me.” The work of Louisa Longstaff-Scales is largely autobiographical and explores personal narratives and storytelling within the context of the landscape. In her paintings Longstaff-Scales is looking to find meaning in the landscape and its ancient cycles. Sometimes Longstaff-Scales’  paintings are of a specific place and moment, and sometimes they are a conglomerate of landscape, like a dot to dot of a journey across land and memory. She explores themes such as the passing of time, the possibilities of consciousnesses, and human behaviour. Longstaff-Scales paintings are hopeful acts that frame the landscape as a companion.  Embracing its constant fluidity and change, she is seeking to find meaning and beauty in impermanence and renewal. In her work Longstaff-Scales is taking comfort in finding the familiar and then trying to edge beyond it. During the making of the painting the process becomes as important as the ideas that birth it. These paintings and titles become like small poems which are equally rooted in the quiet charm of fleeting moments, personal interpretation, and a mortal response to the vast.”