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Lizanne van Essen - Painter / Illustrator / Printmaker / Community Artist (Royston)

Artist's statement:
My work is intended to be 'images to delight the eye and provoke thought', reflecting the positive in life. It includes a variety of media including book art, textiles, collage, paint and printmaking, and is inspired by a wide range of sources. The images are sometimes representational, sometimes abstracted, and emphasise line, form and colour.

I sell my work in gallery exhibitions and I work to commission. I also teach workshops for adults and children in pop-up paper techniques, collage and making simple books.

Commissions:
Chapel Hanging - St Felix School, Suffolk;
Work for private clients.

Exhibitions:
* Barbican, London - 2004 & 2006;
* Crafts on the Bay, Cardiff 2003;
* Boxfield Gallery, Stevenage 2004 & 2007;
* Old Fire Engine House Gallery, Ely - 2003, 2000 &2006;
* Primavera, Cambridge - 2001.

Qualifications:
BA Hons Art & Design, University of Hertfordshire;
City & Guilds Certificate, Creative Embroidery, North Herts College;
Postgraduate Certificate of Education, Warwick University;
MA Modern History, Oxford University.

Publications:
Featured in 'The Encyclopaedia of Papermaking and Bookbinding' by Heidi Reimer-Epp and Mary Reimer.