Portugal paintings – Paintings by Liz Allen

About “Summer night’s drive home”

and the use of dots The scene depicted in this painting evokes a magical and perhaps a mystic order experience. Along a winding road, through the foliage of Cork Oaks, lit up by the car’s headlamps, the viewer is transported into the warmth and atmosphere of this summer night at around midnight in August. LikeContinue reading “About “Summer night’s drive home””

Painting of Casa Alentejo, Lisbon

Please excuse my absence of some time, as I have been again to the UK to see my elderly mother and make plans for her continuing care at home. I’m off again in November to continue with this, and wanted to send you a painting completed a while back, when the weather was still sunnyContinue reading “Painting of Casa Alentejo, Lisbon”

Working to commission

From time to time, I am commissioned to produce a piece of art work depicting a certain house or landscape in a certain way. Even though the work is discussed with the client, there is always some artistic interpretation which I find necessary during the course of the work, which I wonder if the clientContinue reading “Working to commission”