BLOSSOMING
Liz Crossfield is a contemporary artist that lives and works in London. She communicates a breadth of aims in her art: desiring a harmonious, egalitarian world, celebrating mother-nature's life-giving blossoms and exploring the tender lightness of being with the weight of the world in cosmic and sometimes comic reveries.
"I think I'm just painting feelings. Currently, I'm capturing reveries from my grandad's magical rose garden, from when I was little. I can smell the roses as if it were yesterday. I'm enjoying the challenge painting blousy damp petals in all those sugary shades and capturing the heady perfumes that scented the air in that enchanted garden." Crossfield
Crossfield's expanded practice is rooted within a 'utopia of wonder', focussing on Carl Jung's non-gendered Feminine Archetypes, as well as reparation and protection. The work encompasses museological references and 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 all inspire and inform.
This alchemic process is intuitive and instinctive; the engagement between subject and materials is fundamental. Vintage floral fabrics are often embedded in the paint. Methodologies embrace nostalgic childhood memories, inviting automatic, gestural and expressive painting in lush 'gardens of delight'. Crossfield captures and shares her heightened sensory experiences within painted 'felt sense' musings, conjuring up an entirely heartfelt sensory experience that communicates human to human. Wake up and smell the roses.