Inspired by artists such as Edward Bawden, Rena Gardiner and Nikolai Astrup, Liz Somerville works with various forms of handcoloured relief print, sometimes using the more traditional lino but more recently, plywood and mdf board. They are mostly large, she finds it hard to work small, particularly with such monumental subjects. Also included are the drawings that inform and instruct her prints. These are either pen and ink wash or sgrafitto, a technique more like carving than drawing.
Liz graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1988 with a degree in textile design. For the next 10 years she had a number of design related jobs before moving to Dorset in 2004, where she has subsequently concentrated on her printmaking.
Since being a teenager Liz has experimented with print. The technique she is working with now combines linocuts and gouache. This allows her to re-work a single image many times, changing its appearance in each case.
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Kleine Abkühlung im Fluss während des heutigen Waldspaziergangs . #wasserratte … Small cooling in the river 😎😇 during today's forest walk 👱🏻♂️👩🏻🐶🐾. #water rat #drinking # cooling off #walking 🐾
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