Louise Jones is an artist based in Detroit, Michigan who centers her multi-faceted practice on flowers. She creates real and imaginary blossoms on her outdoor/indoor murals, linoleum prints, and traditional canvases.
Besides painting in her home base, where she has done more than 40 murals, Jones also travels in many places including her hometown Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and New Zealand.
Recently, her largest mural to date, called Wildflowers For Buffalo, was completed in Buffalo, New York as part of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Public Art Initiative. The giant painting is the largest mural in Western New York. For this project and other works, Jones incorporated native flora in her drawings. With her unique aesthetic, she merges botanical realism with a stylized, graceful technique based on her Chinese heritage.
“Flowers are a vehicle for me to explore color and shapes. They remind me so much of my own body — they’re very feminine. I consider myself to be feminine, but haven’t always felt that way. As I get older, I’ve learned to embrace my femininity, and I find myself increasingly drawn to flowers with age,” Jones, known professionally as Ouizi, said in an interview with Shinola.
