These are the titles of the three paintings I’ve completed since my last newsletter / blog post. Two of the paintings are referenced from photographs and one from a sketch. I used to hold the opinion that painting from a photo was somehow cheating… though I have occasionally used photos before. When using a photoContinue reading “Tall Trees at Peso, A Winter Walk in the Mountains and Plum Blossom”
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Uplifting art
Welcome to this latest blog newsletter from my studio. I trust this finds you in good health. Since last time, I’ve had a very nice article written about my work in the Portugal News, copied below and can be read online here: https://www.theportugalnews.com/…/liz-allens…/64135 or you can see it at the end of this blog post.Continue reading “Uplifting art”
Newsletter from Liz’s studio winter 2021
Hello everyone, I hope you are well and keeping warm if you’re in the northern hemisphere. As I write to you, I sit near my source of heat, the wood burning fire. It’s cold outside… and the paintings I’ve just completed are ones I started in another era, only weeks ago but when it wasContinue reading “Newsletter from Liz’s studio winter 2021”
Watercolour paintings
I hope you had a good summer. In June I visited my 99 year old mother in the UK, for two and a half weeks. I spent some of this time in quarantine, but it was worth all the tests and confinement to see her after 18 months. After I returned home to Monchique, IContinue reading “Watercolour paintings”
My latest work
This month, I have two new paintings to show you, Leonardslee II, which I finished a few weeks ago, and a new still life painting featuring guitars and fruit, and a flag. The painting Guitars with Flag and Pomegranates, came about from a sketch I’d made of the two different types of guitar which wereContinue reading “My latest work”
Work from 2020
One of my latest paintings from 2020
Paintings by Liz Allen 