Sheppard, Liz
Elephant Family
Liz was educated at St. Albans Grammar School for Girls, and subsequently studied Painting, Etching and Lithography at St. albans College of Art, St. Martin’s College of Art and London University.
She previously lived and worked at the Abbey Arts Centre, Barnet and at Digswell House Trust before moving to Woburn.
Liz has exhibited in many one man and group exhibitions, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Leighton Buzzard Arts Centre, The Print Gallery, Liberty’s and many others.
Her work has been acquired for many private and public collections - including Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, also the Bedfordshire Art Loan, Collection, Bedfordshire Libraries, the Open University, Milton Keynes Development Corporation, Milton Keynes Hospital, Anglian Water Headquarters, Earnst and Whinney, Borneo Martell and by many others.
Liz draws subject matter from many sources, including Woburn Park, and from studies of its wild creatures, woods and classical architecture, travels in Aegean Greece and Turkey.
Liz Sheppard established her print studio in Woburn in 1977
In her prints, traditional techniques of incisive etched line and aquatints are combined with experiments with natural texture-utilising found objects - wood bark, feathers, leaves, textiles combined with soft ground etching, and developing the sculptural aspect of the medium with cut out plates and blind relief printing.