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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 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.

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 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.

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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, which are then sandwiched and layered by colour, abstracting forms while describing encounters and lived experiences. Fragments of rock and reference notebooks inform Thurman’s palette, guiding her towards earth tones and atmospheric hues. Through a process of blending and reworking a mix of medium, she seeks luminous tensions to honour both external and internal landscapes.

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There is a playfulness in Thurman’s frameworks – they humorously compliment an expressive use of colour, acknowledge the potency of structure while leaving space for open and diverse interpretation.

 

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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