The Blackdown Hills are Liz’s home and she has been drawing and responding to them for 45 years. Influenced originally by impressionism, Liz would attempt to capture the light and shapes in front of her but as time progressed, she has become increasingly interested in what it feels and looks like to walk through the landscape: viewpoints changing constantly, the noises she hears, even the thoughts she has. Liz enjoys teaching, and through devising ways for her students to get excited by art, has experimented with techniques which have influenced the way she makes her own work. For example, simplifying complicated objects to bold shapes, reducing tones to just three and using the element of chance. None of this is new thinking, but it has helped Liz to keep being interested and surprised by what she produces.