The studio floor is fabulously paint-splattered. So are Louise Olsen’s sneakers, as she emerges from the studio, wiping her hands on her apron and heading into the kitchen, where all life happens over a cup of tea. Olsen - painter, designer, daughter of the late Australian artistic luminary John Olsen - is in a good place on the eve of her third solo exhibition, opening in Sydney this month.
“I like working up and down with pictures, sideways, all angles, the easel, the wall … I love that inkiness, that play of texture and movement. I love it when the paint is wet, and you get this kind of bleed, and it’s like you’re playing with the friends on the other side,” she explains, with much enthusiasm. “That’s what Dad and I used to talk about.”
It’s about being in the zone. “You can’t just walk in and pick up a brush, you have to see what happens, see what the universe provides,” Olsen
