Wall sculptural art

Elizabeth is a textile artist whose practice is rooted in deep material research and ongoing dialogue between chemistry, gesture and form. Working with iron-tannin reactions, botanical dyes, rust and sculptural textile processes, she creates surfaces and structures that reveal the tension between what is visible and what lies beneath. Her work often begins with the slow, investigative logic of the laboratory, mapping interactions between fibres, tannins, iron pastes and pressure, before expanding into intuitive, gestural mark making that carries the immediacy of drawing.

Across both 2D and sculptural formats, Elizabeth explores subsurface events; hidden forms, emergent pressures and the quiet drama of materials responding to one another. Textiles become membranes, sites of geological, bodily, and atmospheric metaphor. Her recent work investigates who marks can be generated not only on the surface, but from within, through swelling, tension, binding, and the chemical transformations that occur as iron meets tannin.

Material honesty is central to her practice. She foregrounds the raw behaviour of cloth, pigment and chemistry, allowing processes to remain visible rather than concealed. This commitment extends to her exhibition strategies, where textiles are mounted, or suspended in ways that emphasis their presence as contemporary artworks.

Elizabeth's work is shaped by a strong sense of place - drawing on Welsh identity, Midlands influence, and the ecologies of the materials she uses. Each piece becomes part of a wider material atlas, a growing body of research that connects natural dye chemistry, gestural language and sculptural form. Through this, she creates artworks that feel both grounded and elemental, inviting viewers to consider what is hidden, what is emerging, and how the materials themselves can speak.