Liz says of her approach - that she prefers to make things which surprise me and prompt the question “where did that come from?”
She is not particularly interested in narrative or realism in her art. Instead, she is trying to bring something new into the world which combines the chaotic, the arbitrary and the awkward.
It seems to her that while we all spend most of our time engaged with the realities of life - from the mundane to the wonderful - we also spend some of our time in a parallel world of abstraction and imagination. Liz likes to get lost (in a nice way) in this parallel world and tries to invent ciphers and shorthand to describe her particular reality.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020
A FINE BALLANCE, Contemporary and Country at Houghton Hall, North Norfolk (alongisde an exhibiton of sculpture by Henry Moore)
Prints and Pots, Craftco, Southwold
2019
Drawn to the Waveney, Fisher Gallery, Bungay
Harleston and Waveney Art Trail, Open Studios
Print in Action, Cornhall Diss
Transference, Halesworth Gallery
Mini Print Tour, Red Dot
Norwich Print Fair
HWAT Autumn Show, Norwich
Art Fair East, Norwich (Contemporary and Country)
Old Harness Makers, Christmas Pop-up, Harleston
2018
Harleston and Waveney Art Trail, Open Studios
HWAT at Raveningham Sculpture Trail
Norwich Print Fair
2017
Harleston and Waveney Art Trail, Open Studios
2016
A Bungay Breakfast, solo show, Fisher Gallery, Bungay
2000-2011
Artists at Home, West London Open Studios
2011-2013
Jenna Burlington Fine Art
2004
Craft Centre, City Art Gallery, Leeds
2003
Derek Topp Gallery, Derbyshire
Frivoli, Chiswick
New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2000-2002
Pam Schomberg Gallery, Colchester
Milne & Moller at the Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia
British Crafts Fair, Chiswick Town Hall
Textural Interpretations, Alexander Gallery, Brighton
Dartmouth House Crafts Fair
Seven +, Chiswick
2001
Derek Topp Gallery, Derbyshire
Editorial - April BBC Homes & Antiques Magazine
British Crafts Autumn Catalogue
1999
NEMH, West London
Julia Heffer, Cambridge - Solo Exhibition
St Pancras Art & Design Show, London
4 Christmas, Chiswick
1990
The New Academy & Business Art Galleries, London
National Print Open, Square Gallery, London
J’Ouvert National Tour
1989
Tricolour, Small Mansion Arts Centre, London
Chelyuskinskya Open Studio, USSR
RAG/USSR Tour of Soviet Union
J’Ouvert, Camden Arts Centre, London
1988
Thursday Gallery, Bath
Maginot Line, Riverside Studios, London
1987
Oast Room Gallery, Cambridge
1986
National Exhibition of British Prints, Blackpool
1986 – 1993
Open Studios, Small Mansion Arts Centre, London
1985 – 1995
Hammersmith & Fulham Picture Loan Scheme, London
1985 & 1987
Riverside Open, Riverside Studios London
1983 & 1984
New Contemporaries, ICA, London
COLLECTIONS
London Boroughs of Hammersmith
Hounslow & Hackney
Hammersmith, Charing Cross & St Thomas’s Hospitals
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
Stanstead Airport
Cambridgeshire Libraries
Private and Corporate Collections in UK, Europe, USA and the former USSR