28th August – 11th September 2025

Works available to buy from £10.
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We’re delighted to welcome artist Lou Graves back to Six Foot Gallery. Lou is a lifelong Glaswegian, illustrator, and artist, with a body of work encompassing two decades. He utilises his finely honed skills in drawing and painting to portray his remarkably vivid dreams – insights in a vaster, richer, truer world than our own.  Incredible landscapes where vast spiralling towers and staircases organically mingle with and grow into endless expanses of land, sea and plant life that together almost seem to wake from dreaming and distantly regard you from the frame as you pass. You are invited to step inside his work.  Perhaps this will be your first insight into the real world – or perhaps you have seen it before?

Have You Dreamt This? is a sincere question being posed by the artist, Lou Graves. He has always had vivid, memorable dreams of strange but familiar landscapes since childhood, and a passion for art. With this collection of work, he hopes to reach out and show the viewer a world more real than the one we live in.

Read more about Lou’s work and practice over on our blog.

Grave’s The Anclestial Tower features on the exhibition poster as is the work that first set his dream inspired practice in motion. The work was inspired by one of his most vivid dreams and became the catalyst for his ongoing exploration of dreamscapes, expressed through oil and canvas. Painted on a live-stream during lockdown, with some friends watching and chatting, the creation of this work marked the beginning of this project.

“Usually, the title of a piece is the thing I realised, said, or saw that caused me to wake up from the dream.”

In another dream, Lou recalls swimming in the sea surrounded by people in the water and on the shore. Realising he was dreaming, he decided to look under the water, knowing it couldn’t hurt to open his eyes if none of this was real. But there was nothing under the water. Not blackness or a hole or anything. Nothing but a feeling of static. When he lifted his head back above the surface, everyone and everything had frozen in place. Panicked, he rushed to get out the water. On shore, he found his family and sat with them at a table, and uttered the words: There is Nothing Under The Water.

Lou Graves’ solo show runs at Six Foot Gallery from 28th August – 11th September 2025. See more of Lou’s work over on Instagram or on his website.