About LIz
PASSION INSPIRATION TRANQUILITY
I have been searching for and found all three in Southern Italy, the Greek Island of Skiathos and on the Suffolk coast where I now call home. Inspired by light and colour and texture, trees and rocks, the sea, the sky and weathered surfaces.
The Mediterranean landscape ignites a passion for colour; turquoise and blues, silvery greens, ochres and deep purples. The changing tranquillity of the sea and endless skies at the Suffolk coast, the cooler blues and greys and the burnt oranges of rusty boat hulls and the colours of the pebbles on the shore.
“I make joyous contemporary large oil paintings celebrating the beauty of the world around me.”
I imbue the work with my life’s journey as well as the places I live in. The paintings are more about the experience than a photographic representation.
“Painting is the absortion of all my joy and sorrow and the landscape of it.”
Having graduated with a BA in Fine Art and a PGCE in Art and Design Education I have continued working in the arts as a practicing artist and tutor. I taught A level Art and design and life drawing for 30 years in Nottinghamshire, I then spent a year immersing myself in painting in Puglia in Southern Italy. Upon my return I ran workshops and classes at the Secret Garden Café and Studios in Newark-on-Trent for 3 years teaching expressive painting to small groups.
I have now moved to the Suffolk coast and given my time fully to my own practice, however artists retreats are in the pipeline, watch this space!
“I believe painting speaks to the soul like visual poetry, giving hope and joy and inspiration.”