Liz Somerville

Liz Somerville’s linocut’s, inspired by the simplicity and ‘Englishness’ of Eric Ravillious and Edward
Bawden’s work, and the ever changing countryside surrounding the studio, concentrate on landscape and the incidental forms and structures found within it. There is a narrative spinethroughout her work, which takes an evocative path through rolling landscapes, magical forests and rugged coastlines. Her most recent work explores the texture, rhythm andmuscularity of land.

‘I love walking, it forms a major part of my work and life. Winter, also, is a perfect time to see a landscape, really see it; its bare bones, hard contours, unobscured structures and unadorned trees. Colour is minimal, still beautiful, but subtle. The way I construct a picture is to combine different elements that strike me about a particular place - the view as I show it may not be as it is in reality, but the image I produce evokes the essence of a place. A linocut seems to me to be the perfect media in which to work with this subject.’

From a young age Liz experimented with print and she developed this skill while studying Textile Design at Winchester College in the 1980’s. Over the years she has developed a technique which combines the relief printing of linocut with painting. She prints from the block, then paints onto that, then prints again. This allows her to work and rework an image creating depth of colour and form.

All the prices below include the frame.

Liz Somerville Almost a Distant Land linocut 52 x 79 cm	The Lake, 2011 linocut 35cm x 41cm	Birdhouse Hand coloured lino cut 65 x 53cm
Kingston Lacey Hand coloured lino cut 84 x 134cm £1100	From the Beacon to the Mouth Hand coloured lino cut 75 x 51cm £395	Middle Fifth on Cranborne Chase Hand coloured linocut £550
White Tree gouache and linocut 40 x 30cm (image) 57 x 47cm (framed) £ 350	installation shot Feb 2012	installation shot Feb 2012
installation shot showing: River Running Through, gouache & linocut £ 700 Corfe:Past over Present, gouache & linocut £ 595	installation shot showing: Tower Tree, gouache & linocut £ 450 George III Rides Away, gouache & linocut £ 495