Lizzie Bentley

Lizzie Bentley was born in Birmingham, studied Fine Art at the Ruskin (Oxford University) and moved to London where she found work painting for the Film Industry. During this time, she continued to learn to paint, attending classes at Heatherley’s School of Art, The Prince’s Drawing School in Shoreditch, The London School of Painting, and spent a year learning Studio Practice with Jason Bowyer (NEAC) at the Kew Steam Museum.

Lizzie is now back in the Midlands living in Binton, near Stratford Upon Avon where she has a studio.

Working directly from life, Lizzie takes time setting up a still-life, usually flowers, in her studio. Painting in oils, she begins each of her paintings in a representational manner. Once she becomes absorbed in the process and the painting has established itself, she inevitably finds herself taking a more perceptual and emotional approach, capturing how she feels about the subject in front of her.

“I usually take a long time mixing the exact colours that I see in front of me. It is important for me to paint the truth, to paint the true colours that I see. Photographs do not capture the colours that we really see. I intend to capture those colours. As long as I put down the true colours that I see in the subject in front of me then I know that the painting will be honest”.