Biography

About

Liz Crossfield was born in 1969 and lives and works in SW London. She studied at The London College of Fashion and became an international magazine stylist, award-winning Condé Nast magazine editor and GMTV’s fashion correspondent. After having her family, she graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art and then an MA in Fine Art with Distinction from City & Guilds of London Art School; most recently completing a year at Turps Art School. She has exhibited widely, with galleries such as Hypha Studios and the Mall Galleries in London, Liminal Gallery in Margate and Peer Studios and Gallery in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. She completed an invitational 10-day residency with Southcombe Barn in Dartmoor.

Crossfield’s paintings explore the tender lightness of being, coupled with the weight of the world often in cosmic, and sometimes comic, reveries. She is communicating a breadth of aims in her work, celebrating the joy in mother nature and capturing a desire and longing for a more harmonious and egalitarian world. Crossfield’s alchemic process is instinctive; the engagement between subject and materials are fundamental. Methodologies embrace nostalgic childhood memories and invite automatic, gestural and expressive drawing and painting. Her scale can be all enveloping larger than life and ‘small is beautiful’ tiny.

Statement

“My expanded practice is rooted within a ‘utopia of wonder’ inspired by psychotherapist, Carl Jung’s non-gendered ‘Feminine Archetype’s, Mary Oliver’s ‘nature’ poetry and my sense of humanness and being alive. My work encompasses museological references and often attempts to awaken peace-loving, agents-for-change in their ‘gardens of Eden’. Feminine-centred mythologies, folklores, fairy-tales, ancient goddesses and contemporary super-heroines continue to intrigue and inspire me.” – Liz Crossfield