Ironically, although Lou Sexty worked for many years as an actor and director, he now finds himself more interested in non verbal communication. In expressing the thoughts, sensations and emotions which are often simply beyond words.

He is particularly interested in the idea that true “meaning” most often resides in the sub text - in what is not said rather than what is. Most especially he is concerned with the deconstruction of expression - in what remains in the margins, in the creases and folds - in the flaws, in the tears and fissures of life.

Lou takes great pleasure in the organic marking of time passing. In wear, decay and patination, in the crevices and the scars of history.

In his latest paintings, texture becomes text, with the cuts and scratches bearing eloquent testimony to the painstaking process of applying and then scrapping away pigment. They elude to half remembered feelings and the suggestion of scarification. They hint at complexities and contradictions in the passage of time and in the residue of memories.