Screen Prints
On this site you’ll find Lou’s fine art printmaking practice.
Lou has been printmaking since 2015 and specialises in screen print, primarily geometric abstract work with gold leaf, conceptual prints exploring themes of equality, justice and environment, and architectural works responding to the urban environment.
About Lou
I began my art career making textile art and painting with acrylics but soon developed an interest in print. I took a printmaking course at Leith School of Art where I fell in love with screen printing and have been developing my skills in that medium in my home studio and at Edinburgh Printmakers. If you’d like to try it for yourself, I teach one day screen printing workshops with The Arienas Collective in Edinburgh.
You may be here looking for the Lou Davis who makes watercolour tutorials, and that’s me too! I’ve been sharing regular art projects for beginners on YouTube since 2020 featuring plenty of mark making and abstract patterns alongside more traditional subjects like buildings and seascapes. Find resources and more information about those at my dedicated tutorials website.
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PhD Project
From 2017 to 2024 I have been undertaking a research through creative practice PhD through the University of Glasgow on the topic of economic justice.
I made 13 prints in this series, mostly screen prints, using lines and mark-making as visual metaphors for concepts of debt, inequality, the effects of debt forgiveness schemes and the concept of jubilee.
Works shown here use similar methods of making repeating lines following sets of ‘rules’. The rules for each piece are slightly different, and they change at points in the drawing process to reflect real or imagined changes in circumstances. They are visual models or clues to how behaviours change in complex systems.