Liz Alderdice

Artist and photographer, creativity lecturer and occasional housewife!
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Biography

'You do not see with the lens of the eye.You see through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.' - John Ruskin (1819-1908)

Originally from Leeds, Liz has lived in a variety of places including Essex, Cardiff, South America and now Scotland where she lives with hubby and two wonderful daughters. Having no formal art background Liz started photography in the Autumn of 2004 and within 6 months had her first exhibition.Since then her work has been shown in a variety of galleries in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.Liz has taken part in the North East Open Studios for the past three years and now has her own studio in the garden of her croft.

In the summer of 2005 Liz managed to produce a website!(Ok - with a little help from clikpic).

In 2006 she started drawing and continues to work on a series of what might be described as elaborate doodles which start out as automatic drawings. This autumn she is running workshops looking at creativity - ways of unblocking and ways of seeing.

You can see more of Liz's photographic work on her website.

The Glass Project

 "In the winter of 2002, the greenhouse at our croft was battered beyond redemption by the winds. Subsequently it was dimantled and the remnants of glass stored out of sight… possibly to be used one day in a cold frame… which never quite happened.
    In early 2006 I began to play around with various ways of photographing the stacked panes and loved the way the light would diffuse through the glass even when the lens was touching it. Water trapped between the panes gives an eerie underwater feel to some of the shots and the mosses and grasses surviving in amongst it added a sense of landscape and ‘otherworldliness’. 
     The broken edges, when shot in super macro, evoked images of mountains and snowy far away lands, while the straight edges taken from above lend themselves to beautiful linear abstracts.
  I never cease to be amazed at the fascinating and evocative images, which can be found in the most ordinary items around us, and the ever-changing miniature landsapes produced by the effect of light."

 


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