During Elizabeth's career in post 16 art education, her photographic and mixed media work was widely exhibited in London and the Thames Valley. A change of location to the Purbeck's meant it was time to review her medium, to slow down her process, and respond to the challenge of a new environment.
“I drive slowly to my studio through the landscape of Slepe; Hartland and Middlebere Heath, on my way to Sandy Hill Arts, tucked behind the station at Corfe Castle. With a strong need to express observations and thoughts for most of my life, these journey's, so drenched in shifting colour and weather variations, have at times been almost other worldly, and have become my focus.
With colour at the heart of everything, how to advance these experiences onto canvas, meant the elimination of form. Through continued experimentation, random self expression left the work devoid of an underpinning theory until an imaginary schematic was devised – The DNA of Colour - which gave the work a stronger conceptual foundation and context to these visual building blocks.
This work is part of an on-going investigation into colour and location, where alterations are made and canvases reworked, marking time of place, with quiet reverence and attention”
Elizabeth was fortunate to be selected by DVA's 'In Our Nature' exhibition earlier this year, and is currently exhibiting at the RWA Annual Open 6 Sept – 28 Dec, where she is delighted to have been awarded The Andrew Cole Emerging Artist Prize.
