Louise Duggan - Art Consultant & Interior Designer
- Isobel Arden
- Nov 17
- 4 min read
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Meet Louise Duggan.
In this interview, Mark invited Louise to create her own fantasy cultural year from the answers to some easy questions where there are no wrong answers. Enjoy her journey below.
Louise Duggan is the creative powerhouse behind the UK-and-Dubai art consultancy firm Ophelia Art Consultancy Ltd, and a multidisciplinary mixed-media artist who refuses to sit still.
Born in Portsmouth, Louise graduated from the University of Leicester with a BA (Hons) in Art & Design, then took a scenic detour into high-end interior design in London before packing her bags for 23 years in Dubai.
In Dubai, she delivered bespoke artworks to luxury hotels (yes, including the iconic Burj Al Arab) and developed art-solutions for private and hospitality sectors across the Middle East.
Then: a homecoming to West Sussex, UK. Louise now runs the UK office of Ophelia Art Consultancy Ltd, mentors fellow creatives, curates art collections for residential and commercial spaces, and still finds time to paint – often using neon LEDs, resin, textured surfaces and the occasional Chanel bottle (because why not?).
What makes Louise Duggan’s work stand out? A childhood partly spent traveling across Africa and attending boarding school in the UK left its mark: colour becomes bold, abstraction becomes storytelling, and mixed media becomes a way of exploring identity, transformation and bold design.
She brings to every project not only an eye for aesthetics but an interior-designer’s instinct for space, scale and logistics. The result: art that doesn’t just hang on the wall, it inhabits the space, tells a story, and sometimes winks.
Whether you’re an artist needing coaching, a collector seeking impact, or a hotel lobby craving “wow”, Louise Duggan is the creative strategist who will make it happen.
Louise's Fantasy Cultural Year ... with a magic wand and time machine.
Admiring Abu Dhabi
Mark and Louise started a fantasy cultural year by marvelling at the Grand Mosque—its symmetry, its calm, its sheer beauty. They even pictured a cosy little pop-up café beside it, with Louise sipping coffee and water while reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog, a book she adores and has now firmly recommended to Mark.
Louise’s Global Art Odyssey
Mark then floated a rather extraordinary - but fantasy - idea: a fully funded, year-long creative journey for Louise to Japan, Iceland, and India, courtesy of a generous Middle Eastern foundation. Think: first-class flights, immersive cultural encounters, and a year dedicated to exploring dub music.
Highlights they imagined:
A dance performance in Tokyo
Equestrian sports in Iceland
Roaming across India’s diverse regions. Plus—just casually—a TED Talk, a TV crew documenting the adventure, and a book deal waiting at the end. Louise loved it.
Planning a London Culture Week
They also mapped out a packed week of culture in London: historical concerts, theatre, opera, films, and a musical—Broadway or West End, they’re not picky.
They locked in Coriolanus at Chichester on Tuesday.
Mark lamented never seeing Bob Marley live.
Louise recalled seeing Coriolanus with Branagh and Dench. A “magic wand” and “Time Machine” even made an appearance in their playful planning.
Theatre Adventures & Shared Passions
Their cultural plotting continued:
Louise lives near the Festival Theatre in Chchester and plans to catch Hamlet.
They chatted about West End and Broadway greats—Wicked and Phantom got special mentions.
Mark once played percussion in a Shaftesbury Avenue show and has his eye on an opera at the Royal Opera House. They agreed to go together. Louise, ever curious, also mentioned a David Lynch documentary shown in a travelling cinema.
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