A response to landscape: paintings and drawings that have evolved through sensory experience and physical contact with the Matarranya landscape of eastern Spain.
These works represent a distillation of movement through mountain pass, exposed rock and riverbed, featured as weathered, gestural marks that hold the rhythm and colours of an encounter.
Joan Hecktermann
Portrait by Marcus Iglauer
Recent shows:
COLOUR AS PLACE
JM Gallery
London
Drawing Paper Show
Liverpool
100/50 Unit 1
London
For an Artist Bio and Pricing, please contact lizzie@lizziethurman.com
LIZZIE THURMAN
OUTLINE:
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.
STATEMENT:
Lizzie Thurman is a visual 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 and lived experiences.
Fragments of rock and reference notebooks inform Thurman’s palette, directing a mix of earth tones and atmospheric hues that seek the luminous tensions and sensibilities to describe and honour the collaboration of external and internal landscape.
There is a playfulness in Thurman’s frameworks – they acknowledge the potency of structure, simultaneously teasing and complementing with colour, allowing an essential space for open and diverse interpretation.