Lizzie Black AROI

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​Lizzie Black lives and works in Mousehole, West Cornwall. She is a plein air painter enjoying the immediacy of painting in the landscape and responding to her surroundings. As an artist dedicated to daily practice, the unpredictable winter weather and the constraints of lockdown have drawn her creative practice closer to home.

Lizzie collects flowers from her garden and from surrounding cliff walks and paths to create compositions at home. With a collection of vintage china and bottles, ‘I enjoy choreographing nostalgic scenes that tell a story and allow the viewer to escape to a colourful world of flowers and edibles drenched in bright sunlight.’
The interplay of light reflecting from a nearby jug or the warmth of a shadow cast by a flower adds depth and intricacy to her work.

Inspired by the impressionist artists such as Vuillard and Sickert Lizzie enjoys painting close family and friends in their domestic settings. She captures the bustling complexity of the interior space aiming to evoke feelings of familiarity, human connection, and comfort.

Lizzie Black had a formal art training however much of her painting skills and learning came from her father the artist Bernard Evans. Lizzie is an art tutor, also delivering courses online. She exhibits her work throughout the West Country and has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries in London for the past five years as well as the Royal Society of Marine Artists this year. Recently Lizzie received the Tony Merrick Memorial Prize from the royal Institute of Oil Painters for her work.

Examples of work