Louise Belcourt paints hedges. Canada is not necessarily a country you’d associate with hedges but apparently the hedges are monumental.Belcourt spends every summer in a remote  small Canadian village called Metis-sur-Mer in north eastern Quebec where she paints these huge green boundaries. Belcourt now lives in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York where she moved in 1984 before it was trendy or you could buy groceries easily but she spent her childhood in Montreal.

Describing the artist’s work in Elle Decor, March 2012,Vicky Lowry writes: ‘Belcourt continues to push the boundaries between abstraction and traditional landscape painting, aiming to create something, that as the artist herself puts it, “feels like a real thing, but isn’t a picture of a landscape”. The New York Times summed up why her hedges are easy to love by describing them ‘as looking like monumental sofa cushions’.