Elizabeth Neville studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Wolverhampton and went on to complete a PGCE in teaching Art in 2000. After an 18-year career in teaching Art, sharing her passion for the subject, including a long, enjoyable stint leading 6th Form Art at Stafford Grammar School, Elizabeth decided to fulfill her lifelong dream and become a full-time practicing painter.
During this initial period, she studied portraiture at the Florence Academy, which enabled her to return to her roots, focusing on the classical methods of painting, studying the old masters, and breaking an image down to its simplist form. It was this concept that then lead her to experiment with deconstruction and abstraction.
Elizabeth’s work now focuses predominantly on the investigation and deconstruction of the human form, resulting in work somewhere between the figurative and abstraction. She works with both oils and acrylics and enjoys playing with the surface quality of the paints to highlight and accentuate the shapes that have been created in the process.
Elizabeth now lives and works back in Staffordshire.