Liz's Teaching Work
Liz works with schools and colleges as a visiting artist and has worked across the ability range and taught in the inner-cities of Melbourne, London, Liverpool and Leeds. She is skilled in the full range of studio activities, including textiles, technology and visual art.
Liz: "My philosophy is that I believe learning is a life-long journey and art can light the way and my teaching ethos is, ‘be firm and friendly, but never familiar’. My students learn art appreciation skills and become capable of describing, analysing, interpreting and critiquing other people’s works, as well as their own."
"I bring a lot of motivation and inspiration to my teaching. My aim is to let the person make something that has meaning. It’s passion for the subject really."
Below are some examples of work created by Liz’s A-Level students.
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.Teaching Techniques |
| 3D approach - Making marquettes from which to cast shadows and draw. Experimental – Interpreting the shadows of a selection of suspended objects using a variety of media (such as crayons, graphite, charcoal ink wash, collage torn paper). Limited palette - Black & two other colours. Working with "the light" - Incorporating elements of design. Shape and tone- The light source and its effect on the texture of the object. Space and depth – Ways of showing depth and illusionistic space (such as division, placement, vertical location, size, overlapping, detail, atmospheric perspective, aerial perspective) Sand drawing – Utilising Australian Aboriginal rock painting techniques |
.“Introduction to kiln formed glass jewellery” course |
| Liz also runs afternoon courses on weekends teaching people how to make their own glass jewellery. Click here to find out more. |