'My expanded practice is rooted within a ‘utopia of wonder’, focussing on Carl Jung’s non-gendered Feminine Archetypes, Mary Oliver’s ‘nature’ poetry, and being alive. It encompasses museological references, and often 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 are all central to my work.'
Liz Crossfield is communicating a breadth of aims in her work, celebrating the joy in mother nature and capturing a desire and longing for a more harmonious, egalitarian world. Her paintings explore the tender lightness of being, coupled with the weight of the world - often in cosmic, and sometimes comic, reveries. Her scale can be all-enveloping. Her alchemic process is instinctive; the engagement between subject and materials are fundamental. Methodologies embrace nostalgic childhood memories, often situated in rose gardens, which invites automatic, gestural, expressive drawing and painting in mixed media.
Crossfield originally studied at the London College of Fashion, eventually becoming an award-winning Editor for Condé Nast BRIDES. She later graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art, and then an MA in Fine Art with Distinction from City & Guilds of London Art School. Crossfield recently completed a year at Turps Art School. Her work has been featured in several other UK-based galleries including Hypha Studios in London, Liminal Gallery in Margate, and Peer Studios and Gallery in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, among others.
Today, Crossfield lives and works near Richmond, painting full time in her home's lofted studio. She likes to swim in the local lido, and often immerses herself in mother nature whilst walking her Goldies along the Thames Path.