Lizzie Bentley
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Biography
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Lizzie Bentley was born in Birmingham, studied Fine Art at the Ruskin (Oxford University), lived in London for two decades and is now back in the Midlands living in Binton, near Stratford On Avon where she has a studio. Working directly from life, Lizzie takes time setting up a still-life, usually flowers, in her studio. Painting in oils, she begins each of her paintings in a representational manner. Once she becomes absorbed in the process and the painting has established itself, she inevitably finds herself taking a more perceptual and emotional approach, capturing how she feels about the subject in front of her. “I usually take a long time mixing the exact colours that I see in front of me. It is important for me to paint the truth, to paint the true colours that I see. Photographs do not capture the colours that we really see. I intend to capture those colours. As long as I put down the true colours that I see in the subject in front of me then I know that the painting will be honest”. |
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