View from Peso, Monchique Painting

Born in 1957, Kent, UK. Studied at Bath Academy of Art from 1976-79, obtaining a degree in Fine Art painting. Now living and painting in Monchique, Algarve Portugal.After art college ended up getting a job for 15 years... including 7 years working for the South Bank Centre and Hayward Gallery, then moved to Brighton where she started painting again, exhibiting work every May during the Brighton festival.In 2005, Liz moved to the Monchique area of the Algarve, and most of her current work is of the landscape and scenery of the Algarve, from rural landscape to town scenes. Her paintings start with a cartoon like drawing' a direct and spontaneous response to being in a place. Colour and pattern art the most important elements in the painitngs, along with humour and a sense of the absurd.