About Elizabeth (age 57)
Elizabeth is a recent graduate in Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art who pursues the potential of painterly abstraction to expand individual expressionism in her work. She employs varying degrees of figuration which simultaneously conjure and elude interpretation. Scale and mark making, and their relationship to the body, are fundamental to her longstanding exploration of movement, line and spatial tension. Recent paintings embrace the raw physicality of gesture and create a sense of depth, balance and extended narrative through the use of negative space and embedded cellular and anatomical motifs.
Elizabeth uses repeated cycles of painting, additions and deletions, and modulated layering in the generation of stone lithographs and screen prints. Erosion is alluded to in the surface properties of her works which reveal cracked and reconstituted segments created by complex layering of pigments and bleaching and dispersal effects of acid on stone and paper.
Bursary Summary
To develop an exciting new body of work, under the mentorship of Scottish printmaker Elspeth Lamb, which champions the expressive versatility and technical diversity inherent in the process of Stone Lithography printmaking. I aim to raise awareness of this endangered craft and develop my knowledge and skills in this field.
