Liberating Watercolor Flora and Fauna
03.07.2019 - 10.07.2019
Umbria
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Liz Chaderton
watercolor,
watercolour,
painting,
flowers,
garden,
nature
985 GBP
Liz Chaderton lives and works in a small village in Berkshire. She works mainly in watercolour on both paper and canvas, but experiments with printing techniques, particularly lino cutting. Liz is largely self-taught and has been exhibiting her work through exhibitions and galleries since 2009. A selection of her paintings are published and her work is licensed for cards, cushions and coasters... Inspiration comes from the animals and plants she encounters around her in the fields and hedgerows, growing on the allotment, or living on her (regretfully imaginary) small holding.
Liz aims for her paintings to raise a smile and make you see again the
animals and flora we so often overlook. By doing so she hopes to nurture a more
caring attitude to the wider environment.
The starting point for each picture is something that catches her attention
and engages her emotions – a cows’ nose, a pig’s ear, maybe the cats’ whiskers…
From there she tries to capture the essence of the subject, rather than the
detail, believing that what is left out is just as important as what is put in.
Her paintings leave space for your imagination to wander, so are not usually
set in a particular time and place.
For Liz colour and pattern, not details are her passions. She enjoys how
colours work together, mix and interact, along with the texture and pattern in
everyday objects and unexpected places. She says that she loves watercolour for
its immediacy, vibrancy and the unpredicted routes it can take you down as the
paint mixes on the paper.
She runs a number of weekend workshops throughout the year near Reading and
tutors local art groups, aiming to help people ‘loosen up’ and enjoy the full
potential of watercolour.
She has travelled widely and when not painting Liz writes for a number of
magazines and organisations, tends chickens and attempts to keep the weeds at
bay on her vegetable patch.
