Elizabeth loves painting the ordinary in life whether it is people shopping, a pile of rubbish or a poster plastered on a shop front. The urban environment inspires her, she is fascinated by people, what are they thinking? How are they feeling? By painting portraits people going about their business, she celebrates that snapshot of time, making the viewer stop to think about how the small things in life can be interesting. Markets are another interesting place they have been around for centuries, sometimes in the same place, the customer and sellers do not change, everybody needs to buy things, only what they buy and how they dress changes. Psychogeography, history repeats itself; every inch of cities have been inhabited by many people over hundreds of years, how does that reflect on the place now? Elizabeth like to think of herself as a modern-day William Hogarth observing her world and painting it.
EDUCATION
2004-2005 MA Design: Communication, Innovation and Leadership- Leeds Metropolitan University
2001-2004 BA (Hons) Art and Design- York St Johns College of University of Leeds
NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Royal West of England of England Academy Annual Open- Academy Galleries, Bath 2020
Royal Society of Birmingham Artists Prize Exhibition- RBSA Gallery, Birmingham 2020
New English Artists- Malls Galleries, London 2020
Society of Graphic Fine Artists- Menier Gallery, London 2019, 2021
Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize- Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 2019, 2021
Royal Society of Oil Painters- Mall Galleries, London 2019, 2021
Lynn Painter Stainers Prize- Mall Galleries, London 2017, 2018
Society of Women Artists- Mall Galleries, London 2013-2015, 2017-2021
Pastel Society- Mall Galleries, London 2013, 2015, 2016-2021
Royal Institute Painters in Watercolour Annual Exhibition- Mall Galleries, London 2008-2021
Royal Society British Artists Annual Exhibition- Mall Galleries, London 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018-2021
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition- Malls Galleries, London 2019-2020
Discerning Eye- Malls Galleries, London 2015, 2018, 2020
AWARDS
Discerning Eye North East Regional Prize 2018
Jacksons Art Prize- Pastel Society 2017
Shortlisted Zsuzsi Roboz Award 2017, 2016, 2015
Winner Painter Stainers June Stokes Roberts Bursary in Painting in Watercolour 2010, 2009
Winner Winsor and Newton Young Artist of Year 2008
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