hello.
I’m a plein air painter. I’ve forgotten how to work in a studio; my practice is almost exclusively rooted in plein air on the spot observation. Nothing is added to the paintings in the studio except varnish and a frame.
This means lugging mutiple canvases and boards, large and small, easel, palette and paints down winding rocky paths to the beach, through fences and nettles into woodland or through the bustling streets of Soho dodging traffic and busy urban life and navigating public transport with large wet canvases in London Glasgow and Rome.
There are three main strands to my work, shady summer trees, sea and sky, and more recently unassuming urban scenes and snapshots of contemporary city life.
Looking and responding and looking.
OUTSIDE
INSIDE
AN EXHIBITION OF
NEW EN PLEIN AIR AND
STUDIO PAINTINGS BY
LOUISE GILLARD
PAULA MACFARLANE
MARK OWEN
LENA STOGNEVA
ROSIE WOODS
25TH APRIL - 8TH MAY 2026
10AM - 6PM
340 GALLERY
340 KINGS ROAD, CHELSEA
LONDON SW3 5UR
PRIVATE VIEW 28th APRIL 6.00PM
2025 exhibitions include
2025 competitions include
painswick rococo garden
an ongoing series documenting the passing of the seasons
in the rococo gardens at painswick gloucestershire
250mm x 750mm, oil on canvas on board
london streets and alleyways
an ongoing series exploring less obvious london scenes but proudly and wholeheartedly london none the less
250mm x 500mm, oil on canvas on board 2025-26
glasgow
a week of painting on the streets of Glasgow as summer ends
oil on canvas on board 2025
crossroads
of each other at a west sussex crossroads
italy
tuscany, umbria, rome, bologna
oil on canvas, oil on canvas on board, acrylic on canvas on board, ongoing
italy
tuscany, umbria, rome, bologna
oil on canvas, oil on canvas on board, acrylic on canvas on board, ongoing
scotland
mark haspainted extensively across the western isles, the NW coast beaches and inland
oil on canvas, oil on canvas on board, to 2025
galleries
(sales from the site coming soon)
urban
landscape
water
still life
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education.
1982 - 85
Royal Academy Schools
RA Schools Diploma Fine Art (painting)
1985 - 87
Chelsea School of Art
HND Product Design
2006 - 08
Middlesex University
MA Electronic Arts
educate.
thirty years teaching experience working at Levels 3 - 6,
as well as private software training provided to professional designers
particular skills and interest in web delivery using open source software solutions and code based image and animation generation
higher education
2023 - present
University of West London
0.5 senior lecturer BA(Hons) Graphic Design
2015 - 2023
University of West London
course leader BA(Hons) Graphic Design
2002 - 2015
Kingston College
programme leader BA Digital Arts
1995 - 1997
(UeL franchise at Barking College)
programme leader BSc Product Design Year Zero
october 2007
Royal College of Art
MA design engineering Drawing for Designers lecturer
further education
Barking College and Kingston College
1993 - 2002 : programme leader ND Product Design, ND Modelmaking, ND 3D Design
training
2004 - present : formal software (photoshop and illustrator) tuition and support to architecture, exhibition design group
product design.
product design & modelmaking
software skillset
knowledge of and currently teaching
wide ranging software experience, confident with and aware of most creative software areas and current developments.
photoshop
after effects
cinema 4d
processing
screenflow
keynote
photoshop
photoshop
html/css
cavalry
madmapper
wordpress