Desert Haze

One weekend in the school summer holidays I packed up the car and my kids (7 and 10) for a mini break to a farm on Phillip Island in Victoria. On the way all along the side of the road I saw these incredible wild flowers, with stunning white tops.
'Desert Haze' is an exploration of hot summer days and those wild flowers, combining with the calm of origami cranes in a desert oasis.
Each crane uses shades of coffee, burnt sienna and yellow, gradually shaded and overlayed with a white floral pattern to represent the folds of origami paper.
This piece represents warmth, calm and the beauty of the little details.

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Liz is an Australian artist based in Black Rock, Victoria, specialising in geometric abstract and mixed media, using acrylic and origami paper on canvas.

Deeply influenced by the remote natural landscape surrounding her childhood home in Northern Tasmania, Liz also studied the Japanese language as a child and draws on her passion for Japanese culture through inclusion of origami paper and gold leaf as a reference to Kintsugi (the art of repairing broken pottery).

Liz’s technique involves drafting then filling geometric angles, progressively creating a gradient of depth and movement. She uses painting as a form of meditative expression and seeks to create pieces that inspire calmness and evoke an appreciation for the beauty of nature.

“I love to consider how light reacts in different environments. The geometric angles are intended to convey the strength of the subject and my appreciation for simplification and structure.”