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Louis Turpin was born in post-war London, the eldest son of artists living in Brixton. After schooling he briefly studied architecture then worked on a coal wharf and as a toy designer before resuming study; a degree course in Fine Art at Falmouth Art School. Returning to London he worked in the film industry as an architectural model maker until 1973 when he moved to Rye and began painting again.

In 1985 Louis started to paint full-time and since this time has exhibited in numerous solo shows in the UK and more recently the USA. His distinctive portraits have been shown at The Royal Academy of Arts and at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. His work has featured in several publications including Anthony Huxley's The Painted Garden.

Louis' bold and colourful paintings evoke the splendour of the cultivated and natural landscape. He has studied many of the gardens of the south of England from the Kent Sussex border where he lives to Tresco in the west; Great Dixter, Sissinghurst, Batemans, Knightshayes Court have all received his attention and these paintings formed the basis of his first exhibition at Hybrid in May 2008. In Louis' striking canvases he captures the personality of each of the gardens he's visited and travelling through time as well as distance, he encounters gardens riotous with colour in high summer and valleys filled with snow in winter.

Turpin's credentials for this kind of exploration are impressive having been invited to exhibit in conjunction with the National Garden Scheme and commissioned to paint the gardens and estate of Glyndebourne.
Exhibition: Growing Gains 1 May - 12 June 2010

Vegetable Garden & Tower 460 mm x 410 mm £2,000