Louise Ireland
Artist, writer
& company builder.
View workI found the trees inside the fire.
Explore the workTRANSMUTATION
Large-scale wooden murals
and folding screens.
I make large-scale wooden murals and folding screens using charcoal and pyrography. The forest is both my subject and my material.
Through my art, I search for the clearing where the self gives way to oneness. This is my return to source. It is a path back home.
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View workFour-panel screen
Charcoal and pyrography on wood
View workBranching tree
Charcoal and pyrography on wood
View workLive-edge studies
Charcoal and pyrography on wood
View workSlatted forest
Charcoal and pyrography on wood
View workWood fragments
Charcoal and pyrography on wood
View workForest mural
Charcoal and pyrography on wood · Installed at homeGallery views are digitally staged. Open a work to see its original photograph.
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Creation
from destruction.
I find beauty in the cyclical nature of creation from destruction, channeling my own grief from stage IV cancer treatments into art that represents my longing for my inner sanctum.
The Live
Now Club
I write about love, life, cancer, and the miraculous thrill of being alive.
My philosophical inquiry drives me down frequent rabbit holes, and occasionally, back up with something useful. Sometimes I write poems. Sometimes books.
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I’m Louise.
You can call me Lou.
I’m an artist, writer and company builder based in San Francisco.
My work has taken me from finance to cybersecurity, and through cancer into art. I make large-scale wooden murals and folding screens, and write about living fully at The Live Now Club.
I’m also the co-founder and former president of Batuta, a cybersecurity company built primarily across Latin America. Before that, I was an investor at IVP and began my career at J.P. Morgan. I graduated from Brown University with Honors and rowed Division I crew.
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