Louise Reimer âPoisonous mushrooms are a risk you take when you forage. â
-Louise Reimer
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Louise Reimer
I use a combination of traditional media and Photoshop for my illustrations. Recently my friend gave me all her acrylic gouache and Iâve been enjoying combining that with my usual media, watercolour and pencil crayon.
Age 29 What is your current location? Toronto, Ontario, Canada Where are you from? Vancouver, BC, Canada What is your current occupation? Illustrator Do you have any training or formal education in the field of art you work in, or are you self taught? Yes! I went to Emily Carr University in Vancouver for printmaking. I was also in a fine arts program in highschool for a bit and a fine arts scholarship program in my last year of school that kind of streamlined people into Emily Carr. What people, books, films, (etcâŚ) inspire you the most? At the moment Iâm really into David Hockneys America paintings from the 60s, country and western glamour, soft cowboys, primary colours, and all the salami coloured marble at Versailles. This piece was inspired by picking chanterelles in the rain forest in North Vancouver with friends.
What pieces, projects, or collaborations are you currently working on? Iâm making a comic for Comic Arts Brooklyn about the colour blue, putting finishing touches on my rhinestone cowboy halloween costume, helping my friend Andrea Manica with a mural she is painting, and generally applying for things. Is there any music you like to listen to while working? I used to only listen to podcasts while I work, but I started listening to music again recently. While working hard I find it relaxing to listen to music I used to listen to heavily like Silver Jews and Animal Collective, but also have been playing Chance the Rapper pretty heavily. Where do you like to work? I have a desk in my house where I do illustration work and a silkscreen studio that I share with a bunch of artists and printers. I also hang out with friends and draw in cafes at least once a week. What is one of your earliest memories of making art? When I was four my family lived on an island off the coast of BC and I remember drawing a whale that was just a horizon line and a triangular fin shape coming out of it. We would see orcas all the time from the ferry we took to go into town.
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