Earlier work in her 30+ year career featured figure studies, self-portrait and landscapes. More recent work focusses on still life. Elizabeth obtained a degree in Fine Art from Canterbury College of Art (1982-85) and completed a postgraduate qualification from The Slade (1985-87)
Born Charlbury, Oxfordshire, 1963
EDUCATION
1985-87 Higher Diploma in Painting, Slade School of Art
1982-85 BA hons. in Fine Art, Canterbury College of Art
1981-82 Foundation in Art and Design Oxford Polytechnic
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 In the Front Room , 4 Coast Guards Cottages, Weybourne
2018 Blossoming Anthony Fell Antiques, Guest Artist for the Holt Festival
2016 In the Garden Salthouse Church Norfolk
2013 New works Nunn’s Yard Norwich
2012 Winter Exhibition at Home Weybourne Norfolk
2010 New Beginnings St Judes Gallery Itteringham Norfolk
2005 Weybourne to Halley St Judes Gallery Aylsham Norfolk
2003 Reddan Gallery Weybourne Norfolk
2000 Sanderson George and Peach Holmfirth Yorkshire
1999 Medcalf Gallery 54 Exmouth Market Clerkenwell London
1997 Alchemy Gallery Farringdon Road London
1996 43 Exmouth Market Clerkenwell London
1985 Little Egypt Charlbury Oxfordshire
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Unfurl, Contemporary and Country at Stapleford Granary, Cambridge
2023 Wighton 23 Cycle, N.N.E.P.
2023 Winter Exhibition, Mandell’s Gallery Norwich
2022 Avant Gardeners Contemporary and Country at Houghton Hall, North Norfolk
2022 The Granary, Jarrolds, Norwich pop up exhibition by Contemporary and Country
2019 Full Circle Elizabeth Merriman and Margie Britz Salthouse Church, Norfolk
2018 Holt Festival Art Prize Exhibition
2018 Art for Cure Glenham Hall Suffolk
2018 East Anglian Art Fund Open Castle Museum Norwich
2018 An Appetite for Risk The Cut Halesworth
2016 Cley 16 Norfolk
2009 Open Studios Norfolk
2008 Open Studios Norfolk
2005 The Strand Gallery Aldeburgh Suffolk
1997 Recent Works by Three Painters Economist Building London
1995 Bearing Fruit Hampstead Theatre
1995 Islington Art Fair London
1994 Corr Contemporary Art London
1992 The Contemporary Art Society Art Market Smiths Galleries London
1991 Austin Desmond Fine Art Bloomsbury London
1990 Open Studios Angel London
1989 Interior Design International Exhibition Olympia London
1989 Open Studios Cable Street London
1987 The Day Book of Pictures Smiths Galleries Covent Garden London
1987 The Contemporary Art Society Art Market Smith Galleries London
1987 Barclays Bank Young Painter of the Year Award Henry Moore Galleries RCA London
AWARDS
1987 The Boise Travel Scholarship, studied at The School of Art in Lemba, Pathos, Cyprus
1987 Shortlisted Artist for Barclays Young Painter of the Year Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 An Appetite for Risk, The Edge of Colour, Amanda Geitner
2017 On my radar: Toby Jones’s cultural highlights, Observer/Guardian, 12.11.17
1990 Patrons are Offered an Alternative to Galleries, The Independent, 3.12.90 Geraldine Norman
1988 Hung for Less, World of Interiors, June 88 Sarah Howel
1987 Figurative is Fashionable, Financial Times, 3.10.87, Bryan Robertson
COLLECTIONS
Works in Private and Corporate Collections including Unilever and Farrer & Co.