Christmas greetings!

I’d like to wish all my clients and followers a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful and enjoyable festive season. Thanks to you all for your support during 2025. Here are a few of my paintings from this year, and more can be seen here https://liz-allen.com/paintings-2025/ and here https://liz-allen.com/2025/08/27/small-watercolours-series/ I am working on some newContinue reading “Christmas greetings!”

New paintings…

I’m pleased to let you know that amongst all my watercolour paintings (and there are more), I have now just completed an acrylic canvas from my visit to the Watermill at Peso, the Moinho as it is in Portuguese. I first made a watercolour painting from my photograph, which strangely, bears very little resemblance toContinue reading “New paintings…”

Full moon over Peso

Welcome to my latest painting. A scene set at night, though well-lit by the silvery light of the full moon. The tree in the foreground is the Cork Oak (the tree from which Portugal´s cork is harvested) and I find it´s always an interesting subject to study due to its often contorted shape and theContinue reading “Full moon over Peso”

New watercolour paintings

Over the past month or so, I´ve been busy with a new series of watercolour paintings. An interesting discovery is that the rough paper I´ve used for most of these gives a softer look to the colours. I feel that watercolour shows its features best on rough textured or slightly rough paper, but I likeContinue reading “New watercolour paintings”