We come from different professional backgrounds including market research, film, fine art, graphic design and interior design.
What unites us is a love of creativity, and a desire to do good with it.

Louisa founded Art in Site in 2003 after a project at King’s College Hospital persuaded her to change her focus to healthcare. The opening of the Golden Jubilee Wing had highlighted a discrepancy between the old and the new buildings and Louisa devised an interiors strategy that brought all the strands of design together into a unified scheme, with art and attention to detail at its heart.

Once the first ward was finished a patient said, “I can get better now you’ve done that.” Within a few weeks, the matron was receiving direct requests to come and work there for the first time in years. Louisa realised that people in hospital are sensitive to their surroundings, notice everything, and that they need art at such a vulnerable time - no less than staff who are doing difficult, emotional work. From then on, Louisa has set out to use art to give people hope.

Louisa had previously established herself as an art consultant for major clients such as Marks & Spencer, BAA, and the River and Rowing Museum, using art to build stronger communities and to stimulate discussions around creativity. After studying art history and working with artists for many years, she’s now at last discovering the joys and frustrations of making her own work.

Martin has a tendency to draw and scribble - the surfaces of our studio are often littered with piles of paper, covered in doodles of figures in action, designs and verbatim quotes from meetings.

Martin’s notebooks and piles of drawings go back through a career in which he has approached film making, advertising and theatre all through the eyes of an artist - picking up from his co-creators the analytical mindset and ingenuity that get things made with the resources available.

Martin believes in beauty - and its power to repair and inspire. This belief brings with it a painful understanding of how beauty can be driven out if you carelessly forget what it is like to be a human being in a real space, where real light falls in a real moment in time.

Sometimes Martin’s drawings find their way directly onto the walls of Art in Site’s schemes, but more often they are his way of exchanging ideas - with the in-house team of designers he encourages - and with the artists and craftspeople that Art in Site draw into their schemes.

Drawing, for Martin is also a way of ‘drawing out’ the needs and aspirations of the clients we serve, and the patients and students and visitors our clients serve in their turn, encouraging them to go beyond a ‘shopping’ mindset to a transformational mindset. For this to happen, words are never enough, because only in a drawing can you begin to see what situation will be, not only what you wish it to be.

Martin is delighted that the tasks that our clients bring to Art in Site are so varied. He likes to get involved as early as possible, to try and help work out what is essential. He’s an enthusiast for mixing the depth of experience that comes from working with materials and the ability to put yourself in another person’s place. Perhaps this is why the subject of his scribbles are often not the colours, images, furniture or lighting that will become Art in Site’s design, but people encountering and experiencing that design, or simply encountering each other in the scenery that the designs create, because the real focus is imagining what those people feel.

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Since 2021, our work has benefited from Scott’s balance of creative and practical oversight, honed in a background of writing, marketing, TV production and production management roles. Under Scott’s stewardship, we’ve become much more efficient, grown our innovation in materials and production methods, navigated the complexities brought by Covid-19, and improved our production sustainability.

Scott’s journey to Art in Site came during a period of redundancy following the first wave of the pandemic. He saw an opportunity to combine his project management skills with a desire to create better, more compassionate experiences for vulnerable people. His time working within the complex and challenging world of our NHS clients, with the smallest but most widely-skilled team of his career, has given him the ability to be more creative, agile and innovative in his work than ever before.

Outside work, Scott trains and competes with a rowing club in London’s Docklands.

Chloe draws on her love of colour, texture, lighting and materiality to deliver richness to each project. She enjoys the challenge of delivering multilayered schemes that communicate a narrative and create a natural rhythm and flow through a space. She seeks out opportunities to design bespoke furniture, believing it can ground an interior, create impact and support the different ways people might use a given space.

Chloe began in the world of Fine Art then broadened her design vocabulary with a degree in Interior Architecture at Falmouth University. For the past 10 years she has specialised in healthcare interiors with a particular focus on design for neurodiversity.

She lives in Cornwall, a few minutes from the sea. Her interest in spacial design extends into her own garden, where she can be found growing a multitude of flowers and vegetables.

Chloe is currently on maternity leave, returning in 2025. Please contact another member of the team for any inquiries related to her projects.

Hannah makes sure our processes and systems are state of the art and that everything runs smoothly in the studio.

Prior to joining us she was a fashion buyer, using her creative mind to design collections while juggling the logistics of bringing that offer to customers around the world. Those experiences have equipped her to coordinate multiple projects on the go, keeping people connected and providing structure to everything we do.

In her spare time Hannah is learning the art of ceramics.

Celia is a visual storyteller.

She combines spatial creativity attributed growing up in a family of architects, with her expertise in graphic design. She studied her BA in Graphic Design at the University of the West of England, where she received an International Society of Typographic Designers award through the student assessment scheme.

Since 2016 she’s helped us redefine how we integrate art into buildings, with innovations in colour schemes, visual storytelling, and play design. For each project, Celia distills the complexity of our design briefs into bold, simple art schemes that make a deep emotional connection.

Her weekends and holidays are spent outdoors walking her dog, or cycling her bike.