Liz Hauck Artist

My paintings are abstract and my approach to painting is expressive. I paint from ‘inside out’, using my imagination and expressing my feelings and memories. Inspired by nature I am especially interested in transitions, the changing seasons, changing weather, the life cycle of trees, plants and flowers and the shipping light at the beginning and the end of the day.

I paint mainly with oils. I’m now also working with oil and cold wax which has a beautiful luminous quality. My paintings are highly textural, built up with collage, texture mediums and thick paint. I also love to draw expressively using a range of mediums, inks, marker pens, coloured pencils and graphite.

Painting for me is similar to the improvisation of a jazz player riffing and experimenting around an initial idea – in my case playing with colour, shape and texture.