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Wobblybridge Presents Liz Allen
1519
OFFLINE
4 years ago
3
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I studied Fine Art painting at Bath Academy of Art from 1976-79. After art college, real life took hold and the need to earn money! Though I tried to continue painting in various back bedrooms and bathrooms I quickly ran out of space (we were encouraged to paint large at college) Evenutally gave up and got a job. But in 1994, got married, moved to Brighton, packed the job in and got my paints out. I found I had to undo all the academic stuff art school had instilled in me in order to find my true way of painting. This took quite a few years! Apart from allowing my true painter to emerge, (an almost constant struggle between the trained bit of me and my artist), during this time I was drawn to learning new things, and took a couple of teaching courses, amongst others, and ran my own monoprint and collage workshops for over 10 years. In 2002 I began to study and practice Reiki and have been a Reiki master since 2003. Algarve Artist In 2005, I moved to the western Algarve, Portugal and current paintings are mainly of the Algarvelandscape and scenery, from rural landscape to town scenes.My paintings have a simplified style which is distinctive and extremely colourful.
Most of my paintings start with a cartoon like drawing; a direct and spontaneous response to what I see, and it is this that the painting is built on. Colour is the most important element in my paintings. I enjoy being bold and uncompromising with colour - even quite extreme at times. Pattern is also a feature I like to develop and play with.
For me the purpose is that the process should be joyful and if it is, the result will be also!
