Elzanne Louw is a Cape Town based printmaking artist. Elzanne's
creative background spans across many avenues and thus what she refers to as
the holy trinity of creativity, art, craft and design, are ever present
in her work. A self-proclaimed vigilante printmaker and a process driven artist
her first love is relief printing, and she consistently hones her expressive
mark making style in this medium. Her approach to printmaking is intuitive and
experimental and although mainly focused on relief, she is not shy to explore
and combine other printing mediums and techniques, like Intaglio,
Screen-printing, Monotype, Monoprint and photographic processes like Cyanotype in
her work. Elzanne is also a dedicated visual art and design educator, and
therefore also employs her skills to act as a mentor in this capacity. She
describes visual literacy as a 'life skill which in combination with fine motor
skills has the ability to change lives' and says "This is why I teach, not
because I care to produce artists. Teaching also plays a significant part
in my own creative process because I discover new ideas and methods with my
learners".
