London-based artist Louise Robinson has always loved the tiny, ethereal, macabre, magical, whimsical and kitsch

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She works with what she calls “her little people”, meticulously hand-painting and staging them in story-boxes to invite viewers behind the glass so they can immerse themselves in pared down and understated snapshots of the contemporary world

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Frozen in time, these exquisite little scenes remind us that we are very small in a vast universe, that we are unique, vulnerable yet strong, insignificant yet special, and that we live in a shared commonality. Louise’s worlds are both amusing and provocative

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Her latest pieces created during the first Covid lockdown of March 2020 address the spaces between people and how isolated we can feel even in a crowd. They also reflect on sex, death and the possibility of an afterlife