louise dee is an artist living and working in British Columbia between the mountains and the ocean on Vancouver’s North Shore.

Her practice is focused on notions of home. For many people Home may be thought of as a physical place of shelter, a psychological space of connection, safety and belonging or a place of domestic activity and everyday chores. It is also considered here as an intersectional space where emotional, cultural and generational influences are expressed, exerted and assimilated.

Her interest is in people, and their relationship to each other and to the surrounding world. She paints figurative abstractions and portraits based on family, friends, strangers and herself. Captured from observation, memory and imagination, through drawing, found imagery and photographs, she creates images and constructs hybrids to explore contemporary life.

These paintings are part of an ongoing series of portraits called The Sitting Room Project. This work considers the ways technology has disrupted traditional modes of influence in the home and has changed the way we relate to each other and to ourselves.