Elizabeth's paintings serve to suggest another way of seeing and engaging with the natural world. Her personal motivations are to draw attention to the current global crisis, working with organic matter to discuss unrelenting growth in the name of progress and humanity’s consequential dissociation from nature. Since 2013 Elizabeth's practise has centred around the inherent systems of natural materials. She spent four years after graduating learning traditional methods of extracting colour from plants, earth minerals, which her current practise readdresses in an attempt to reveal something previously overlooked in the sole pursuit of pigment. She manifests these concerns with the action of painting, between the site of the pigments and the studio. During a residency with Winsor & Newton Elizabeth investigated madder, drawing inspiration from the notebooks of George Field. This resulted in an exhibition titled “Madder”, deconstructing and re-evaluating traditional methods of extracting pigment within the framework of painting. Elizabeth’s work is represented by Katrina Phillips of 99 Portobello Road London, and is held in public and private collections worldwide including Nobu Hotels, Winsor & Newton Head Quarters, Sir Robert De Niro, Robert Plant and The Grimaldi Family. She gives workshops in pigment making and Life Drawing on Ibiza, and is currently setting up a global platform online for artists to meet and discuss their practices. https://www.elizabethroselangford.com/