About

Elizabeth's practice explores myth, memory, and transformation through painting, ceramics, textiles, and material experimentation.

Drawing upon mythology, folklore, archaeology, and cultural narratives, she investigates how stories endure across time and continue to shape contemporary experience. Rather than illustrating myths directly, she uses them as frameworks through which to explore identity, resilience, visibility, and collective memory.

Central to her work is an interest in the ways meaning is carried, preserved, and transformed through colour and material form. Her process is intuitive and responsive, working through layering, staining, pouring, folding, and erosion. Materials are guided but ultimately allowed to develop beyond direct control, creating works that emerge through a balance of intention and chance.

Just as myths evolve through retelling and adaptation, the surfaces and structures of her work develop through transformation, material interaction, and accumulation. Contrasts between geometric and organic forms, order and chaos, permanence and instability, concealment and visibility create a visual language that resists fixed interpretation.

Colour plays a vital role within the practice, functioning as both an emotional and symbolic language. Deep, atmospheric palettes evoke shadow, depth, and memory, constructing spaces that feel simultaneously ancient and contemporary.

Underlying the work is a sustained interest in resilience. Elizabeth is drawn to stories and narratives centred on women who persist through adversity, reflecting her own experiences of navigating health challenges, grief, and psychological transformation. In this sense, resilience is understood not as resistance to change, but as the capacity to endure, adapt, and become.

Her works function as contemporary relics where myth, memory, and lived experience intersect, inviting reflection on how meaning is preserved, transformed, and carried forward across time.