Upcoming show:
COLOUR AS PLACE
20-25 NOVEMBER 2025
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This exhibition, brings together the work of Lizzie Thurman and Joan Hecktermann, two artists who use colour as a way of grounding experience and memory.​
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For Thurman, colour arises from sensory experience and physical contact with the landscape, through the act of walking - a distillation of mountain pass, rock-form and riverbed. She creates textured, shrine-like drawings where gestural marks hold the rhythm of an encounter. ​
Featuring
LIZZIE THURMAN
& JOAN HECKTERMANN
For Hecktermann, colour functions as a vessel for memory, where hues echo and reawaken fragments of the past, summoning places and moments through sensation rather than clarity.​
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Though their practices emerge from different sources, both artists arrive at a shared understanding of colour as more than just surface. In this fascinating show, colour becomes place: a site where memory, perception and experience converge, and where viewers are invited to find their own associations within these shifting environments.
Address:
JM GALLERY 230 PORTOBELLO
LONDON W11
Portrait by Marcus Iglauer
UPCOMING SHOWS
COLOUR AS PLACE, JM Gallery London
20th November 2025
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Recent shows:
Drawing Paper Show, Liverpool
100/50 Unit 1, London
For an Artist Bio please contact lizzie@lizziethurman.com
LIZZIE THURMAN
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OUTLINE:​​
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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.
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She graduated in Textile/Print from Central School of Art and Design (CSM) followed by a career as artist, stylist, textile designer 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.
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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:
Lizzie Thurman is an instinctive artist, 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 rock forms, riverbeds and animal 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, sandwiched and layered with colour, abstracting form while describing the rhythms of an encounter or lived experience. Fragments of rock and reference notebooks inform Thurman’s palette, guiding her towards earth tones and atmospheric hues. Through a process of reduction, blending and reworking a mix of medium, she seeks luminous tensions that honour both external and internal landscapes.
There is a playfulness in Thurman’s frameworks – they acknowledge the potency of structure, simultaneously tease and complement with colour, while leaving space for open and diverse interpretation.