Louis Casha is a Maltese painter who frequently uses geometric motifs and highly symbolical imagery. During the 1960’s, he was one of the first painters in Malta to make use of Maltese prehistoric imagery in his work. His interest to recreate something that had already been created by the prehistoric artist moves him so deeply whenever he paints. Malta’s prehistory is always in his mind. Casha finds a certain similarity between the prehistoric motifs and geometrical designs created in 'Op art'. This concept is expressed in most of his works.

 

Louis Casha’s art is essentially derived from his love of Neolithic forms, discovering the individuality of the cultural identity of his country and redefining thematically and stylistically his artistic expression. Art critic, Emmanuel Fiorentino, describes clearly the profound attachment of Casha’s art to his native land: "His is an art steeped basically in the full glow of patriotic sentiments nourished from an age when idea of patriotism had not yet been dreamed of but which was fully conscious at the same time of a pride in its religious buildings both for its living deities and dead ancestors, and either erected above ground or scooped out of the earth’s bowels"

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