Liz Douglas

Liz Douglas Out of the Mire 6th March – 16th April 2015

Liz Douglas Out of the Mire 6th March – 16th April 2015

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Liz Douglas’ practice involves researching material from the landscape at both macro and micro level in order to make paintings, drawings and prints.

Contemporary practices in both drawing and painting, in relation to traditional methods, are a constant challenge in order to find innovative ways of making work that challenges her perception of landscape. She paints often on a large scale, layering paint to create surface texture, colour and structure.

She is particularly interested in the relationship between the natural world and the human world and the importance of the wild natural spaces that exist in Scotland and her need to connect to these through walking the landscape and finding a way of making work that resonates. The writer Nan Shepherd, and “The Living Landscape” has been an important influence.

Her work has focussed on specific sites in the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway which are of geological interest, sites of regeneration (ongoing) – habitats that existed 6,000 years ago. She has collaborated with agencies, in particular Scottish Natural Heritage and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, The Borders Forest Trust, The Carrifran Wildwood Project, in order to develop her understanding of the quiet habitats that exist in Scotland and the astonishing work that is being done .

Liz Douglas is a Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists, and graduate of Edinburgh College of Art.

Blue Move Mixed media on Board 30cm x 30cm

Blue Structure Mixed media on Board 30cm x 30cm

Botanics Mixed media on Paper/Board 30cm x 30cm

Marsh Pink Study Mixed media on Board 30cm x 30cm

Mire Study 1 Mixed media on Board 30cm x 30cm

Mire Study 2 Mixed media on Board 30cm x 30cm

Mire Study 3 Mixed media on Board 30cm x 30cm

Polygonum Bistorta Mixed media on Board 30cm x 30cm

Horizon 1 Mixed media on Fabriano 30cm x 18cm

Pool Horizon Mixed media on Fabriano 30cm x 18cm

Eastern Time Mixed media on Fabriano 38cm x 38cm

RB700 Mixed media on Canvas 150cm x 150cm

Dusk Mixed media on Board 80cm x 80cm

Mire Pool 3 Etching 40cm x 56cm

Out of the Mire 2 Pigment & Lazercut 82cm x 64cm

Out of the Mire 3 Lazer, Etch & Dye 82cm x 64cm

Yellow Light Mixed Media on Canvas 100cm x 100cm

Rbnnwy2 Lithograph 84cm x 60cm

Liz Douglas Qualifications 1993 1991

Awards 2014 2013 2012 2011 2008 2005 2004 2000 1993 1991

Exhibitions 2015 2013 2012 SSA 2011

Master of Fine Art – Painting Edinburgh College of Art B.A. Hons. Drawing and Painting Edinburgh College of Art

Creative Place Commission 2014 – Eastgate Theatre, Peebles Edinburgh Laser Studio Award - SSA con-TEXT Residencies 2011/12 – Heriot Watt University, School of Textiles & Design, Galashiels Visual Artists Awards:Scottish Borders 2010/11 Deloitte and Touche LLP Award – SSA Annual Exhibition Scottish Natural Heritage – research award Scottish Borders Council – research award The Evelyn William Trust – Bursary Drawing Quarters 2005 – UWE The Hope Scott Trust – research award Scottish Natural Heritage – research award Society of Scottish Artists – Edinburgh Printmakers Research Award John Florent Stone Scholarship Angus Award for Landscape – RSA Student Exhibition Borders Biennial – Commended Solo Exhibition ‘Out of the Mire’ &Collective, Bridge of Allan Sofia International Paper Art Biennial RSW; RSA; SSA Dovecot ‘ Hidden Stories’ – reconstructed studio ‘Mire’ Harestanes, Ancrum, Jedburgh ‘Way’ Art Installations, Over Phawhope Bothy, Ettrick SSA

2010 2009/10 2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001-4 2000 1999

Solo Exhibition ‘Seeds of Time’, Tweeddale Museum, Peebles SSA/ The Shape of Thing/Harestanes; Seeds of Time,Tweeddale Gallery, Peebles The Meffan,Forfar/Arbroath/Montrose - Interface Seeds of Time 2 Peebles Museum Mainhill Gallery/SSA/Harestanes Willowlines – new work from Ettrick Haughland Collyer-Bristow Gallery, London Wasps,Peebles/SSA SSA Interface-Sci-Art Touring Exhibition-Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries/Kilmarnock/ Wick/St Andrews/Galashiels SSA/Art 2000 Seeds of Time – new work Harestanes Environmental Centre,Ancrum/Glasgow Art Fair/Art 99

Memberships 1996

Professional Member of Society of Scottish Artists

Works in Public and Private Collections

Standard Life,Edinburgh College of Art, The National Trust for Scotland,Scottish Borders Council, Paintings in Hospitals, Scotland, Flying Colours Gallery, East and Midlothian Art Fund, Capital Solutions, Eildon Group, Barclays Bank