About Liz Green
I am a self-taught contemporary landscape painter based at WASPs Inverness Creative Academy. I work in oils, acrylics and mixed media. My paintings aim to capture the mood of being immersed in a landscape with all the thoughts and feelings that provokes. Based on field sketches, photographs and imagination, my work includes both realistic detail and abstraction at differing scales. Always experimenting, my work stylises the shapes, patterns and colours that create essential components of landscape distinctive of a place, a time, a feeling and its environmental context.
I want paintings to convey my reverence for the intricacies and inter-dependencies of nature and its tenacity to cling on, adapt and thrive even with human's heavy influence. The surety of turning seasons, weather and tides is hopeful and inspires me. Woodland and water in its many formats are my go to sanctuaries; immersion in the interconnections of systems seemingly beyond human control, and painting them lifts me. I hope the viewer may feel similar respite and resonance. I am also interested in connections so other work includes the marks and consequences of human endeavour in the landscape, be they scars, remnants or still functioning industries. I view all landscape as intimately tangled with humanity. I increasingly incorporate narrative and the struggles and joys of being human into my artwork.
My previous life strongly informs my work. I have an indelible and life-long interest in raw materials, making things and the natural world. A long career as a botanist, plant ecologist, environmental lobbyist and then garden designer honed my eye for colour, pattern, a sense of place, landscape history, and above all, the transience, jeopardy and value of the natural world. Working in schools, growing older and living in the world we do now has precipitated a more urgent and philosophical look at what it means to be human and trying to incorporate this into my work.
I exhibit regularly in Scotland. My work received a commendation at the Scottish Fine Art Awards and was also shortlisted for the Highland Art Prize (2023). A large woodland piece was selected by Visual Arts Scotland to exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy (Dec 2025).
Solo Exhibitions
Open space gallery Grantown-on-Spey Arboreal (April 2025)
Nairn Community and Arts Centre Interface: where Lands Meets Water (Oct 2024)
Inverness Creative Academy 'Arboreal Realms: on the margins' (17 May - 28 June 2024)
Eden Court, Distilled Landscapes (June 2023)
Nairn Community and Arts Centre, Coast (2021)
Brentford Gallery, London, Weathered (2019)
Glenfiddich Distillery, Distilled Landscapes (2019)
Eden Court, Inverness (2012, 2017, 2018)
Resipole Studios, Acharacle (2017)
The Pier, Lairg (2017)
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Into the Woods (2016)
Moray Art Centre, Forres, Weathered (2015) Into the Woods (2016)
Birnam Arts Centre, Dunkeld (2015)
John Muir Trust, Pitlochry (2014)
Liz Green
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