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My paintings reflect those landscapes that I enjoy exploring, especially the wild remote hills and moors in the UK and Ireland. I trudge these places armed with a sketchbook and a few basic drawing materials. Back in my studio I flick through the sketchbook until a drawing or series of drawings seem to speak. Then the adventure begins, exploring possibilities much as I explored new terrain.
Images are built up, maybe using collage or liquid graphite, and layers of thin acrylic paint are intermingled with line. I draw on my memories as much as the sketches, remembering the scents on the wind and the changing light. When is the painting finished? When it speaks back to me of that remembered experience.
Background Information about Liz Salter
Inspiration comes from walking the land, especially the remote hilly areas of Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland
She feels it is important to establish a relationship with these specific locations, to explore it by revisiting it in order to understand its many different aspects. This research is recorded through drawings and paintings made on location.
The experiences recorded in the drawings made on site are then developed in the studio, the painting also coming from the remembered experience of being there in all weather as well as the physical aspects of the place.
The paintings are made on paper using a variety of media including ink, acrylic paint and collage. Texture is an important element in her paintings along with the drawn line. The paint is energetic and layered, reflecting the layers of history and geology that have shaped the landscape. The processes involved in making work are a key part of her paintings.
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