About the Artist

Louise has spent her life surrounded by art. She was fortunate to grow up in a home with parents who took an avid interest in going to galleries and art auctions and surrounded her in colour and design. Many Saturday mornings were spent listening to her parents discuss the merits of a work of art. Over time, their home was filled with intriguing (although not necessarily famous) pieces of Canadian art from early impressionism to contemporary. Under this influence, Louise was always drawing, painting and building her creations.

Louise Lacey-Rokosh completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) in Painting in 1982. Discovering that she also had a passion for math, she chose to complement her Fine Arts degree with a Masters in Architecture (MArch) in 1987, and also completed her Masters in Architectural Technology (MSc) from Edinburgh UK in the same year.

After many years in a successful career as a Senior Design Architect in England and Canada, Louise felt the lure of painting calling her again. Eventually, she left the field of Architecture in 2005 to paint full time. Her very graphic background has had a strong influence in her painting. Every painting, even those completed plein air, start with a carefully composed notan to ensure that the paintings will have strong composition, balance and light. These simple little drawings have kept her focus on what is important even as the light changes or the still life fades.

Louise has been influenced by many artists throughout her life. They ebb and flow throughout her thoughts as she paints. What she admires most in other painters is not necessarily their technical skills but their ability to paint and leave their "hand writing", their personal identifiable brushwork, on their paintings. This is what Louise strives for in every painting; to capture a moment in time with a sense of light and space, with her own identifiable handwriting. 

Louise's paintings are in private collections in Canada, USA, and England and Europe. She has won professional competitions in the USA as well as exhibited in numerous group and solo shows throughout North America.  In 2020, Louise was honoured to be named "Featured Artist" of the renowned "San Diego ArtWalk" which is home to over 300 artists.