Writer, rider and founder of The Big Hoof.

Currently living between Kyiv, Oxford and Amsterdam.

In 2022 Louis journeyed 110 days across Europe on an Arabian horse called Sasha, creating the first conclusive horse-trail across the Ligurian Alps in recorded history. Diaries of the ride are being released as a narrative non-fiction book in February 2025, Of Blood and Honey. The book pursues the themes of grief, adventure and hope. Since January 2023, Louis has been working as press organiser and written content manager for NGO Insulate Ukraine. Driven by this time spent in Ukraine, he is currently co-directing a documentary on the concept of Home, in the style of a filmpoem.

Growing up in Scotland, Louis was intensely impacted by the wild land and the myths that surround it. This curiosity culminated in a trip to northern Mongolia, aged 18, in search of the Tsaatan tribe. It was on this trek that he first encountered the connecting powers of the horse. On his return he then embarked upon a 1,147-mile ride down the length of the UK, on a Highland pony called Irelanda. The solo trip raised £38,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and laid the foundation for The Big Hoof: a Scottish registered outdoor mental health charity that creates long distance rides. To date, the charity has travelled over 4,000 miles and raised over £80,000 for causes focussed on mental health, wellbeing and child welfare in the UK and Europe.

Louis is currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.

He is represented both in the UK and Europe as an actor for film and theatre. Filmography.