Louisa Loakes

Louisa Loakes is a textile artist based in Peckham, London, who takes inspiration from various cultures, including the block printing heritage of Northern India. Although formally trained as a painter at Wimbledon School of Art, she found herself increasingly drawn to print, deciding to specialise in both printmaking and the traditional block printing. Today, Loakes describes herself as an “artist/block printer”, combining hand painted and block printed designs in a range of fabrics.