Artist Presentation - Liz Douglas

Liz Douglas is a local artist based at Wasp Studios in Selkirk,  Scottish Borders. She came into class to show us some of her work. I found out that She spent 6 years studying at Edinburgh college of Art. In 1991 she gained her honers degree in drawing and painting and in 1993 she achieved her master of fine art in painting,  both at Edinburgh college of Art. She has also acquired a few awards over the years including, visual Artist and Craft Makers Award for south of Scotland 2014-15,  The Edinburgh Laser Cutting Studio prize-SSA 2013 and cabn/Creative Scotland Visual Artist award 2011. She explained how most of her current work is researched based and she is inspired by nature and natural surroundings. She showed us some of the work she has done through a power point. There was a piece named "fault line" which was made on top of the Ettrick Valley,  it is 10mx1.5m and is made using a mixture of glue, charcoal and sand- all media was found on site. "elements"  was another mixed media painting created at 2000ft above sea level. In this piece, she wanted to show the difference between then and now, when it was freezing cold and the water was 25 Degrees. She also created artwork at Ravenscraig and Ettrick marshes.  Another style of work Liz does was drawing and painting things in nature, "moth drawing" is an image of a moth, produced by using graphite and chalk on canvas. "Marsh drawing"  is 1.5x4m,this started off with drawing Liz plants, insects and birds on photocopy paper, transferred onto acetate then a carbon copy was made, this piece took a month to complete. The end result is a large paper cutting with the shapes cut out, a very lovely piece of work. "raft" was another painting inspired by whitlaw mosses. The idea behind this piece was making corridors for animals to pass through,  so they were not harmed by the chemicals in the fields. Liz also turned her hand to lazer cutting where she created such works as "inner pool firms" and "pleated landscape".
After listening to Liz describe how important she felt the process in creating her work was,  rather than just the end result,  I decided to look her up online. I found that she had a page containing alot of her artwork aswell as information. A few artworks which I am interested in are :

You can view more artwork and information at Liz@Lizdouglas.co.uk