About Lizzie

Lizzie Beere describes her style as intertwining the abstract and the figurative.

Best known for her large abstract botanical paintings, she works in a loose, non-representational style, expanding and exploding the traditions of floral still life.

Her work is often wild, raw and imperfect, reflective of the battle scars and endurance in the human condition.

“Erupted florals”, she says, “and the beauty in their transition and final decay.”

“I guess I try to capture those moments of enduring strength and fragility of the flowers”, she says.

There’s the reference to nature, while the underlying loose structure and pallet of composition remain rooted in the abstraction. The contrast between the recognisable and the obscure.

She has recently commenced a second body of hand-built ceramics, again textured and painterly. Each vessel carries its own individual patina in the process of sculpted construction, through to firing. And like her paintings, offering that feeling of a weathered life lived well.

“I hope this allows the viewer a connection to my work, on various levels”, she says.

“Finding beauty in the imperfection and the impermanence”.

Lizzie’s work is available from her website, her Studio - open weekly and from Muse Art Gallery in Havelock North. When time permits she also works to commission.