About Liz
Baltimore City
I was born in a small town in Alabama and grew up working in the family business, The Heart of Dixie Motel. The Motel was set on a hill with miles of woods behind and HWY 280 in the front. The town lay in the valley below. The Tallapooosa River, just beyond the valley was dammed in 1920 to create electicity, which flooded many small towns and created a huge lake. This lake covers my ancestors homes and graves. Many of my images rise from here.
I graduated from the small but… more
I graduated from the small but… more
Jump to a project:
The Sun and Moon Series
These pale colored papers of Cerulean, Robins Egg and Blush, allow the transparencies of the sky, such as the motion of the clouds and the faces of the Deities, to be seen. Using gouache and ink, I can draw with liquid lines, the silhouettes of pines, whom I love. How better to conjure water than with another liquid. Dots and lines of white gouache are capable to describe light on water. All these things make it possible for me to relay the beauty of the land and water and calm the angst for a little while. All the paper is 22"x 32" and year created was 2017.
-
Moon Adoring the PineThe Moon, for many seasons has watched the Pine grow and longs to rest in the Pine's boughs.
-
Starry Headed Aunt, caring for the stand of PinesIn this Gouche and Ink drawing, the motion of the Galaxies, with lacy arms is directing the wind and crows.
-
Mother ArmsMother Arms envelope the Lonely Pine, who is awaiting the Moon.
-
Western Pine with Cosmic HandsIn this Ink and Gouache drawing, the Lonesome Pine is the lookout of the Moss Covered Stone and the Cosmic Hands are the Lookout for the Pine.
-
Dark Moon Calling
-
Deity swallowing the sunrise
-
Twilight, Roosting Crow in Rosy HorizonThese two trees are tall pines, the favorites of local crows.
-
Seeded Face, Dark Mother, welcomes the crows and then shooooes them away.
-
Bird TerrariumCrows live in the terrarium dress, worn by the Mother.
-
IMG_0600.jpg
Shape Shifters on the Tallapoosa River
These are paintings on canvas using oil and are mostly involving the action which occurs when matter is transforming.
The air and the glow from within the beings of these paintings are engaged in a song, humming vibrations which I strain always to hear.
This work was created between the years of 2011 and 2015.
The air and the glow from within the beings of these paintings are engaged in a song, humming vibrations which I strain always to hear.
This work was created between the years of 2011 and 2015.
-
AncestorThis oil on canvas is of the ancestors whose burial ground is under the lake. This lake was created by damming the Tallapoosa River. The resulting lake flooded many small towns and burial grounds.
-
Stuffed Doll with Eye PortalsThe guide on the doll's shoulder will lead you into which ever eye portal you wish to enter.
-
Bottle Tree for HaintsThere is a tradition in Alabama of hanging bottles in a tree just outside the door of a newly deceased person. The newly dead will try to enter the old home place but will be sucked into the bottles instead. Releaving the living inhabitants of the problem of haints.
-
spirit animal reflectionLooking deep into the water you will find your true reflection.
-
Spirit underneath, ready to riseJust before dawn, the spirits rise from the water and float around the fields until the dew falls again. This painting is oil on canvas.
-
Cloud SpiritImpish cloud spirit, waiting for the proper moment to spring. oil on canvas
-
Spirit riderGhost hat, worn by a horse person, when attending a cloud stirring ceremony.
-
Stag on PinkThis oil on canvas is of a Stag in August.
-
Doll stuffed with CloudsThis oil on canvas is a portrait of a stuffed doll that I stitched with needle and thread, against a cloud filled sky.
-
sky ceremonial headdressI painted the sky years ago and waited for someone to come inhabit it. One morning in the still darkness, I began to stitch with paint this hood and then the ties for the deer head, not knowing from stitch to stitch what was about to appear.
Gourds, Moths and Silhouettes with Visitors
These oil on wood and canvas paintings are of organic forms of wings and wood grain. I also included in this series a story painting of the cart driver and the maiden. The cart driver would take the maiden to visit her lover ever night, from the shore to his hut. One night the cart driver arrived early to retrieve the maiden and saw her climb up from the shores out of the dark lake. Since he had seen her, he had to take her place in the water and become a maiden who lived in the lake and visited her lover every night in his hut. This painting was created on the bottom of an antique drawer. It is 15"x 15", oil on wood panel.
-
See Me, Not See MeOil on Wood, False Eye Spots on a birch tree. oil on wood panel.18"x 15".
-
Indian Maiden and the Cart Driveroil paint on the back of a wooden drawer
-
Summer Gourd on a Wireoil on canvas. This oil sketch includes crows and a woodpecker flying near by. 18"x 24"
-
pine silhouettes and Haint
-
Gourds and Ancestors
-
wooden skyThe sky grew bright and wooden with gnarly knot holes and the sudden eye. Oil on Wood, 20"x 20"
-
Swimming Deer under Strawberry MoonThe first gift. Just after my father died, a stag swam across the path of my canoe.
-
Lion Head Mothoil on canvas 2013
-
Fall Gourd on a Wire
-
Death Head Hawk Moth the Paintingoil on canvas.
Woven Dolls, pinecones and reflections
small oil paintings on canvas
I made cloth dolls with fur hair and button eyes and cloth lips all created using stuffing and whip stitches. These dolls have riders on their shoulders who are guides. This is the last stage of their creation, to make paintings of them so they might live in spaces between.
I made cloth dolls with fur hair and button eyes and cloth lips all created using stuffing and whip stitches. These dolls have riders on their shoulders who are guides. This is the last stage of their creation, to make paintings of them so they might live in spaces between.
Piggly Wiggly
These ink drawings were created for illustrating a song. The drawings will be put on a roll and cranked to roll past a viewing window as I sing their story. This group of drawings was created for the Crankie Festival at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD in 2016
Me and Mama went to town
To the Piggly Wiggly, to the Big Bear
grocery stores with animal names
grocery stores filled with poison creme
like creme horns and creme puffs
like the creme filled check out lady.
Me and Mama went to town
To the Piggly Wiggly, to the Big Bear
grocery stores with animal names
grocery stores filled with poison creme
like creme horns and creme puffs
like the creme filled check out lady.
Water Home
Oil paintings on canvas
-
Holy GhostSunrise on red banks of the Tallapoosa.
-
Gourd ArmatureLooking like a denuded flag of war
-
Moon RisingFrom my canoe..
-
sunset in the water
-
Ghost BellBell and Sky. The bell that my Daddy told me to ring when he died.
-
August Water
-
August Moon
-
clouds in the water
-
Sunset into yellow
-
Calling down the MoonA painting of night on the water and the secret rituals that must take place on the shore.
Gnosis and Needle Work
These are paintings on wood which I am working to encourage the glow from within the images to be seen by human eyes.
-
The crow's offeringOil on wood..36" x 32", 2010
-
Gift from the visitorPre-human recieves a gift from the visitor, showing the future. Oil on Wood 25"x 42"
-
Ghost Hiding and Waiting 2012oil on wood
-
Needlepoint Story Headoil on canvas
-
Mother Mary and Cosmic Jesusoil on wood
-
Battle for the Devil's Heart in a Netherlandish Headdressoil on wood
-
Gnosis of Animalsoil on wood
-
Calling Down Voiding TimeOil on wood
-
Travelers and Pupils in the 5th Dimensionoil on wood
-
LookingOil sketch on wood. 2013