ElizabethAFox

I love those high places, and when I'm not there I like to paint them. I often paint in the field too, when staying in a new place.
What I am trying to capture in the work is the presence of those things that are not quite there, like pools of water and rivers flowing, ice melting, clouds passing, birds flocking in flight, or the wind blowing. How to record these passing states? This is my question as I work

I work in oil paint, acrylic, ink, watercolour, graphite, wax, pastel and collage. I also work with water, ice, video and 3d sculpting and modelling, but these works are more difficult to show. Each medium and material has different specific qualities that I try to use to express my ideas.

I love to keep a visual diary of my travel by cycle, or backpacking, running and walking on the moors and mountains, love to record what I see, - the land, the weather, people, ideas, love to use new media and methods, love to paint...Every holiday deserves a new sketchbook, each full of paintings and drawings made in the field.

If you want to read more about the expeditions, climbing, mountaineering and cycling that have been the material for the work, I keep a blog - 'Not at Home' on WordPress, detailing this, the link to which you can find in the right side panel.

I have had many exhibitions of my work, and also worked on public commissions, installations and live events. Here are just some of these

Noise of Many Waters, Installation for Victoria Baths and in conjunction with Royal Northern College of Music
Lightworks Grimsby Minster Video with sound installation
Pantheon Magazine Issue 1 October 2010
HESA Inprint Issue 2 March 2011
Sound of Art: Art of Sound, Installation, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester
MA show, Manchester Metropolitan University
Artists Books Exhibition, Holden Gallery Manchester
White, Exhibition, Holden Gallery, Manchester
Commission, The National School, Todmorden. Design for new Play area
Gallery Oldham Open Exhibition
Commission, Ravenscliffe School Halifax, Installation of Totems for outdoor sound garden
Commission, Oakenrod Primary School, Rochdale Ceramic tile mural for Playground
Commission, Hanson Corner Drop–in Centre, Manchester. Design new gardens
Commission, Oakenrod Primary School, Rochdale. Large outdoor mosaic storytelling circle
Commission, Hollingworth Lake Country Park, Littleborough. Mosaic installation for benches by lake
Commission, Withybush Hospital, Pembrokeshire. Mosaic pavement installation
Commission, Bristol Children’s Hospital. Large mobile installation for window
Commission, Oakenrod Primary School, Rochdale. Large Mosaic Tile installation
Commission, Karl Severingschule, Bielefeld, Germany. Large herbal knot garden
Commission, Hopwood Hall College, Manchester. Sundial and willow sculptures
Commission, Hopwood Hall College, Manchester. 3 new ponds.
Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Open
Edge Launch Exhibition, Rochdale
The Peoples’ Art, Rochdale