Fine Art, Contemporary Painting by Elizabeth A Fox

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Is that frogspawn, just below the surface? the earliest, transparent hints floating there, waiting for the weather.

Fascinated by self contained lonely lakes, I like to draw and paint them in all seasons. I attempt, through the use of my media, and methods to convey the process of the changes in the water caused by the cycle of the seasons. Here is a pond that is just coming alive in the spring, There are still traces of the freezing, melting, contracting and expanding, and forming unusual shapes which frame the grasses and heather trapped inside it. But something new is happening
This is an original painting, part of an on-going series depicting small ponds and tarns.

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Not At Home – My Painting Inspiration : not at home

Walk Bec de Morgiou via the Cret de Moriou and climb at Les Abricotier. We walk in the morning, enjoying seeing what we only saw in darkness last night. A steep path leads up to the col, looking down into the idyllic small port of Sormiou and out along the isthmus of the Bec de […]

Saturday, 26 December On the day our departure for Morgiou, we woke up to flood sirens sounding; it’s been raining all night and all the previous day. Last night (Christmas Day) Jim had to interrupt celebrations by going to move things from the ground floor of his house, afraid of flooding while we were away. […]

Monday 11 July Cinque Torri climbing and Averau Via Ferrata We get up at 5 o’clock to leave early so that we can climb Averau before breakfast. The Via Ferrata is quite steep for a grade two. Nobody is about as we pass the Averau Hut, walk round the back and start scrambling up towards […]

Sunday 10 July We visit Cinque Torre to stay overnight. The cable car takes us up through the meadows and over the trees. Our room is a very large one with the balcony and a window looking directly onto the towers. Itching to go and look at them, we go out straight away, climbing at […]

I interrupted writing about the Dolomites while I made a lot of paintings of mountains, some from the Dolomites, and many from Scotland and the Cuillin Ridge. I was experimenting with a new technique using wax and inks, which gives an almost print like quality to the work, and also seems to represent the actions […]