Liz, an Australian-born artist with a lifelong passion for drawing and painting, seamlessly blends her artistic talent with a rich background in institutional banking. After a fulfilling 15-year career in finance, she rekindled her love for art, embarking on a formal journey of creative exploration.
Her artistic education began with evening life drawing, watercolour, and classical drawing classes at Julian Ashton Art School in The Rocks, Sydney. Liz further honed her skills by completing a Diploma of Visual Arts from Northbridge Visual Art School. She has undertaken numerous art courses, including watercolour and abstract courses at Art Est in Leichhardt and Dutch Masters classical portrait oil painting at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney.
Liz completed the Natural History Illustration course with the University of Newcastle. Actively engaging with the local art community, she has participated in various art groups such as Epping Life Drawing, Hornsby Art Society evening art sessions, and pottery classes in Surry Hills. Additionally, Liz shares her expertise by teaching art workshops in Surry Hills.
In addition to her artistic achievements, Liz holds a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Commerce from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, respectively. This diverse background enriches her unique artistic perspective, blending the detail required finance with the creativity of visual arts.
Influenced mainly by both the classical and impressionism. Her artworks are composed to capture a sense of harmony with texture, colours and attention to detail for an overall aesthetic for compositional harmony or to reflect naturalistic tendencies of beauty of asymmetry. Her esoteric interest in graphic novels such as Chris Ware also influence her artwork concepts.
Inspirations are often linked to the ideals of conservation and preservation of environment and wildlife. Natural history illustrators of Cayley, Durer and Gould are notable illustrative greats that she draws inspiration.
Michelangelo, Bruegel, Margaret Preston, Van Gogh , Pissarro and Hokusai are also some favourites.
Her artworks seek to explore and observe the interconnection of relationships that exists with nature, everyday living and the beauty of asymmetry and glorious imperfections in nature.