A practising artist for over 40 years, Liz King is a UK based artist who works with combining photography, drawing, painting and digital design to create beautiful contemporary images.
Liz's Artworks
Liz often finds her initial visual stimulus in natural form; sometimes in landscape but also in her own surrounding environment.
The process of making starts with a photograph which she proceeds to visually deconstruct before rebuilding the image using a variety of traditional methods, old and new technologies. The images emerge through the digital collaging of ink and charcoal drawing, watercolour painting and fragments of photographs. Many gicleé prints are further embellished by hand.
The concept tends to lead the making. The process of making or building her artwork may be initiated from the sense of place from where the original photograph was taken. Thoughts and ideas overlay and engage with the process of making. The final piece is never pre-planned.
Liz frequently makes her artworks in series. Her images depict a pure response to many basic visual elements in either one form or one space; in their colour, texture and shape, their reflective quality or in the way something moves. Liz visually explores the fragmenting of ‘moments’, layering and manipulating marks and materials in order to alter contexts or isolate elements from their natural state or environment. All these elements are combined into a digital format and the final image is then created as a fine art print, sometimes a projection.
Liz initially studied graphic design at Mansfield College of Art in Nottinghamshire before completing an honours degree in Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne. She completed her MA Fine Art at Norwich School of Art & Design. Much of her inspiration and influences whilst studying came from her tutors, mentors and fellow students. They include Helen Chadwick, Lloyd Gibson, Derek Dalton, Alastair Park, Roger Wilson, Rebecca Fortnum, Simon Granger, Dinos Chapman, Chris Locke, David Nash, Chris Barlow, Sue Howarth, Richard Grayson, and Nettie Burnett.
Liz produces many of her artworks as both limited edition and open edition giclée prints. Some are hand embellished. These prints are museum quality, printed on acid free watercolour paper using archival inks.
Liz's Photography
The photographic images by Liz King may be found and purchased on the following photographic library websites;
EyeEm.com and gettyimages.co.uk
Liz's Artworks
Liz often finds her initial visual stimulus in natural form; sometimes in landscape but also in her own surrounding environment.
The process of making starts with a photograph which she proceeds to visually deconstruct before rebuilding the image using a variety of traditional methods, old and new technologies. The images emerge through the digital collaging of ink and charcoal drawing, watercolour painting and fragments of photographs. Many gicleé prints are further embellished by hand.
The concept tends to lead the making. The process of making or building her artwork may be initiated from the sense of place from where the original photograph was taken. Thoughts and ideas overlay and engage with the process of making. The final piece is never pre-planned.
Liz frequently makes her artworks in series. Her images depict a pure response to many basic visual elements in either one form or one space; in their colour, texture and shape, their reflective quality or in the way something moves. Liz visually explores the fragmenting of ‘moments’, layering and manipulating marks and materials in order to alter contexts or isolate elements from their natural state or environment. All these elements are combined into a digital format and the final image is then created as a fine art print, sometimes a projection.
Liz initially studied graphic design at Mansfield College of Art in Nottinghamshire before completing an honours degree in Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne. She completed her MA Fine Art at Norwich School of Art & Design. Much of her inspiration and influences whilst studying came from her tutors, mentors and fellow students. They include Helen Chadwick, Lloyd Gibson, Derek Dalton, Alastair Park, Roger Wilson, Rebecca Fortnum, Simon Granger, Dinos Chapman, Chris Locke, David Nash, Chris Barlow, Sue Howarth, Richard Grayson, and Nettie Burnett.
Liz produces many of her artworks as both limited edition and open edition giclée prints. Some are hand embellished. These prints are museum quality, printed on acid free watercolour paper using archival inks.
Liz's Photography
The photographic images by Liz King may be found and purchased on the following photographic library websites;
EyeEm.com and gettyimages.co.uk
Image Copyright Statement 2020. All users of this website are reminded that any redistribution or copying of any copyrighted images on this website requires written and signed permission directly from the copyright artist/owner Liz King.