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Liz Doyle

It is difficult not to become excited about Liz’s work. Her energy
is infectious and this energy is transferred into her abstract
paintings. The painting on the front and back cover of TAG#4
is a perfect demonstration of what I am talking about. The
work is 2000mm wide and1000mm high, the size of the work
is impressive. The impact of the variable toned red base with
the yellow and blue emerging from the colour field gives both
dimension and perspective. The blue seems to be arrived in
the foreground whereas the yellow is slowing passing on into
the distance as the small blue square rests on the ground as
if it were an anchor. Liz has carved her initials in the small
heart shaped blue mark (to the right of the painting) to claim
the authorship of this unique piece of work. All Liz’s paintings
are strong, both in colour, tonal differences and all have the
power of her assertive manner of how she handles the paint
application on the surface. Using oil paint and cold wax gives
the artist a textured finish to her work and enables her to
‘scratch’ instinctive marks into the medium which gives her the
opportunity to develop the work with a final burst of creative
energy.

Here is what Liz has to say about her most important
influences...

“...my abstract works are an exploration, both of my materials
and my surroundings and my experiences.
Of course my choices (of materials and colours and
composition) are also the product of the influences I feel from
the works of all the ‘Greats’ that have gone before us. When
I think about painting, my inner eye turns most frequently to
favourite works I have seen by Richard Diebenkorn, Robert
Motherwell, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Antoni Tapies
and even further back to Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and
J.M.W.Turner, and that to mention just a few.”

Liz lives on Cruit Island in County Donegal and paints in an
converted stable which is now her studio. She has exhibited
widely in solo and group shows throughout Ireland since
moving there in 2007. Her work is in private collections in
Ireland, the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. Recently her
work was shown as the Miami Art Fair (see photograph from
Mark Borgi Fine Art. Liz also exhibits at The Doorway Gallery,
Dublin (www.thedoorwaygallery.com ) The Velvet Easel,
Edinburgh (www.velveteasel.co.uk) And in County Mayo at the
Green Fuse Gallery (www.greenfuse.ie)

You can find out more about Liz and her work at www.
donegallizdoyle.com Social media sites: Instagram @
lizdoyleartist On Twitter @lizleindoyle

Photograph above right: Liz in NYC outside the Gallery.
Painting opposite page right: “Blue Pour over Mountain Scene”
Oil and cold wax on Birch Panel. 600mm x 600mm.
painting right: “Peripheries” Oil and cold wax on linen-canvas.
1000mm x 2000mm (shown on TAG front and back page page
as a reversed image with special the permission of the artist).

Photographs and images grateful thanks and
acknowledgements to: Vincent O’Donoghue at Green Fuse
Gallery.- www.greenfuse.ie and Mark Borghi Fine Art, New
York, USA. - www.borghi.org