Liz Hough - Visual Artist

Liz Hough was born in the UK in 1966 and studied painting in Manchester and at the Royal Academy Schools in London. She has won many awards for her work including the Daler-Rowney Award for Artist under 30 at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, The Creswick Prize for Landscape Painting in Oils and a finalist in the Young Painters’ Award Scheme at the Mall Galleries.

Since leaving college, Liz has travelled extensively and exhibited full-time in London. Commissions she has undertaken include three ambitious works on the theme of jazz, for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in 1996. Her works can also be seen in the Paintings in Hospitals Collection, the Bank of China and the TSB collection in London.

Her travels have taken her to many places, the Deep South and New Orleans, the mountains of Santa Fe, the flat never-ending landscape of Texas, New York’s impressive buildings and jazz clubs, and Greyhound journeys to the mid-west. She has travelled by bus and jeep through Turkey, spent three months in an isolated mountain village, made various trips across Europe and has recently returned from four years in rural Umbria, Italy, where she has been making landscape and figurative paintings.

After studying for a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Perugia, where Raffael once was a student, she now strives to find a contemporary way of using fresco and gold leaf. Drawing from painters such as Piero della Francesca, Perugino an Giotto, her next major commissioned work is for a 10th century Umbrian chapel near Todi, now being restored, and dedicated to St Michael, the patron saint of painters.

See Liz’s works at www.art-online.co.uk