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About
Liz Allen
Studied
at Croydon College of Art and Design 1975-76,
then Bath Academy of Art 1976-79, and obtained BA (Hons)
in Fine Art (Painting)
About my
past
After
art college, continued painting in various back bedrooms and
attics, basements and bathrooms, etc, but quickly ran out of
space (we were encouraged to paint large at college).
Eventually
gave up and got a job. But in 1994, moved from London 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 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.
The
present
:
Algarve Artist
In 2005,
I moved to the western Algarve, Portugal and current paintings
are mainly of the Algarve
landscape 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!
I hope that you enjoy looking at them.
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