This month I am focusing on Elizabeth Acland; the profits of whose art work go to fund the education of two girls in Uganda. I visited Elizabeth in her studio on Arthur Street, which you can also visit in June as she is part of the Open Studios and Art Trail, which runs from 15th to the 23rd June 2019.
Elizabeth is a retired teacher and was inspired to take up art after studying the great Colourists of the early 20th century while completing an Art History Degree at Leeds.
She tells me she is completely ‘self-taught’ – ‘there was no art department at my school’. Despite this she is a beautiful painter and colourist and continues to experiment, always thinking up new ideas and ways of working, often going back to finished and framed pieces and adding to them. She has taken part in different workshops and studies other artists work. And although her favourite medium is water colour and inks, she says she will try anything on the page and is experimenting with pastels using it on top of her watercolours.
