Now Lies the Earth

Elizabeth Talbot
24 January to 28 March 2009

Preview: Saturday 24 January, 2pm
Artist’s talk: Friday 23 January, 7pm

The paintings, prints and drawings of Elizabeth Talbot evoke a mysterious and silent connection with the natural landscape.

Working from her urban studio in Byker, Newcastle, Talbot’s paintings have a timeless quality that reflects a sense of longing for the natural world as an ideal.

Her work is further removed from everyday reality by little evidence of brushwork, resulting from a gradual build up of countless thin layers of paint.

These paintings draw the viewer in to contemplative spaces that supersede specific national or regional identities, but with which viewers readily find an affinity.