Elizabeth’s current work explores the dialectic between inside and outside, the natural and the manmade. It calls upon her physical and psychological inherence in the world; for example Picton’s experience of walking in the landscape as opposed to the interior psychology of the studio.
Engagement with universal themes has necessitated a formal reduction regarding composition and palette. This austerity focuses both on the essence of an idea and the aesthetic materiality of paint on canvas.
Thus painting becomes a metaphor dealing with the phenomena that she is referencing, for example light, time, transience, presence and absence. Her practice is located within the tradition of the Northern Romantic Abstract Sublime.
