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Born in the UK, Lizzie Thurman is a visual artist working from a studio in Shropshire and a roof terrace in Matarraña.

She graduated in Textile/Print from Central School of Art and Design (CSM) followed by a varied career as creative: artist, designer, stylist and teacher. Drawing and painting have been life-long facilitators and colour, an essential element of who she is and how she feels able to communicate.

Thurman has exhibited internationally and shown regularly since 2008. 

Her work can be found in private collections around the world.​

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STATEMENT:

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​Lizzie Thurman is an intuitive creative, addressing common human enquiry through physical and sensory experiences.

Her recent work is an evolving retort to the solitary ventures she undertakes amidst the exposed landforms, water and pathways of the Matarraña region of Spain.

From a terraced roof top, she works on paper, creating shrine-like drawings that reveal natural connections with the landscape.

Initial marks are impulsive gestures and subsequent colour developments, outcomes of an abstracted representation or simply, an expression of experience.

She is assisted by reference notebooks and fragments of collected rock which are scrutinised to extract form and earth tones. Thurman wrestles with, atmospheric hues, which are blended to luminous effect, until the perfect tease for a weathered framework emerges and dialogue begins to form.

Throughout this focused process, internal landscapes inevitably influence her direction of play. Irregular palettes and recurring shapes in her work form the foundation of a maturing but constantly evolving, visual language.

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Next show:

COLOUR AS PLACE, JM Gallery London - 20th November 2025

Recent shows:

Drawing Paper Show, Liverpool

100/50 Unit 1, London

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For an Artist Bio please contact lizzie@lizziethurman.com