Paint what you want to see
A studio update from Liz Foster, exploring new sunflower paintings, shifting colour palettes and the process behind recent work in oil and watercolour. Reflections on painting what you want to see, alongside a preview of new works soon to be released.
Deep Among the Grasses: Abstract Paintings of Memory, Landscape and Immersion
Deep Among the Grasses is a series of abstract oil paintings that explores the memory of being completely immersed in the landscape — those moments when the boundary between ourselves and the natural world begins to blur. It draws on childhood memories of long grasses, overgrown gardens and spaces that felt larger than life.
The story of a painting - Green Air
In The Story of a Painting – Green Air, I reveal how a large-scale work emerged through stages of acrylic underpainting, stitching canvas sections, and oil layers. It’s a journey of time, gesture and landscape energy condensed into a moment of visual stillness — a painting about air, land and memory.