Liz Keyworth

My work is primarily about a direct response to and celebration of the

landscape, colour and light. Working from nature, the race against changing

light and weather enforces a focus and speed and economy of expression. The

familiarity with my subject, built from years of experience and working with

plants in the landscape, result in paintings that invoke the beauty and ethereal

essence of a place. The paintings are made both outside in the landscape and

back in the studio, where I can manipulate the visual language to new effect

thus immersing one in a totally new experience. I use mainly oil, enjoying its

fluidity and versatility.

Colour possesses me, the ability it has to change and create a mood, a

dialogue, a discord or a surprise. The work is at the same time amorphic and

identifiable, hovering between abstraction and figuration. I like to play with

this ambivalence leaving open the possibility for interpretation.