Elizabeth Merriman (born 1963) is a British painter who lives and works in
East Anglia
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. She completed her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at
Canterbury College of Art
The Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD, often ) was an art school based across three campuses in the county of Kent, in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the amalgamation of three independent colleges: Canterbury College of Art, Maidstone Col ...
in 1985 and followed this with a post-graduate higher diploma at the
Slade School of Fine Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
between 1985 and 1987.
At the Slade her work was shortlisted for the Barclays Young Painter award. She exhibited works at the Contemporary Art Society at Smiths Galleries in 1987 and at the Porl Porl Gallery in Leeds, also in 1987.
During 1989 she showed works at the Interior Design International Exhibition at Olympia and at the East End Open Studios and at Cable Atreet Studios in London.
The actor
Toby Jones
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has said of her work
“These paintings are both figurative and abstract, but the degree to which they are is controlled by the artist’s emotional response. The colours are so bold and translucent and beautifully worked. They can be hugely joyful or melancholic, and these deceptively simple still lifes have a very mysterious effect on me".
References
External links
Elizabeth Merriman - St. Jude's Gallery, Norwich, UKElizabeth Merriman - The Gallery Norfolk, UK
1963 births
Living people
20th-century British painters
20th-century British women artists
21st-century British painters
21st-century British women artists
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
British contemporary painters
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