SUMMER ALWAYS BLOOMS BY OUIZI IN DOWNTOWN BENTONVILLE

Public Art
Client:  OZ Art
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas
Artists: Ouizi

Service: Concept, Location scouting, Curation, Development, and Production

A new artwork flourished in Downtown Bentonville, appropriately titled “Summer Always Blooms”. Contemporary artist Louise Jones, aka Ouizi, painted an intricate bundle of oversized pink, white and yellow flowers, plus giant butterflies, sprawling across a building wall for a public art piece curated and produced by ​Justkids and commissioned by local art organization OZ Art.

With a background in drawing and printmaking, Ouizi’s nature-based imagery and sinuous style is directly inspired by classical Chinese watercolor paintings and kiyo-e Japanese woodblock printing.

Ouizi also looks up to American master Georgia O’Keeffe for inspiration. It’s no surprise that Ouizi’s first time in Bentonville, back in 2018, is directly connected to O’Keeffe’s retrospective The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art at The Crystal Bridges Museum, which invited the upcoming and noteworthy artist to paint a very special indoor mural in honor of the master herself, exclusively made for the show.

“I am delighted and humbled to return to Bentonville to paint a new mural in the town square. When I was last here painting inside Crystal Bridges, it was Summer, so I look forward to seeing the city in the Spring!”, said the artist about returning to Bentonville to paint. - Ouizi.