Books and Writing¶
Liz Douglas - A Life in Art
Liz had been fit and healthy and in the midst of a productive flow of work when, in early 2022, she became ill with cancer and died three months later. Her sudden loss came as a huge shock to all of us.
As a personal tribute, I resolved to mount an exhibition showing her art from pre-art college right up to the present. With the whole-hearted support from staff at LiveBorders, an exhibition was planned for the beautiful gallery in Peebles Museum and Library.
While preparing for this, in collaboration with Avril Nicol of the &Gallery in Edinburgh who has regularly exhibited Liz’s paintings over the past nine years, the idea came to produce a publication to accompany the exhibition. This aims to outline the development of Liz’s art practice and ideas as she researched particular subjects in carefully chosen sites across Scotland out of which she produced different series of paintings and other artworks.
Jim Douglas - November 2023
Book¶
mixed media on canvas
1m x 1m
This book has 66 pages with 4 essays and 31 full pages of photographs of paintings and banners.
Price: £14.50 plus post and packing: (UK £3.50 / non-UK £5.50)
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Essay¶
‘Seeds of Time’ An essay by © Ruth Pelzer-Montada, Ph.D. 2008
This essay places the work of Liz Douglas in a wider context.
Click here to download the 'Seeds of Time' essay
This essay was written to accompany ‘Seeds of Time’ exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Hume, Visual Arts Officer, Scottish Borders Museum Service, Selkirk and part of STEC (Scottish Touring Exhibitions Consortium).
Ruth Pelzer-Montada, PhD, is an artist and lecturer in Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh. Her essays on contemporary printmaking have appeared in national and international journals and online.