Angela Lizon

Originally from London, Angela Lizon currently lives and works in Bristol. She is a studio holder at Spike Island, an international centre for contemporary art. She studied oil painting at Bristol Polytechnic (BA) and then won a postgraduate scholarship for study at Krakow Academy of Fine Art in Poland. Lizon was elected an Academician at the RWA in 2018 and is currently Vice President. Exhibiting regularly, Lizon has been selected for the Contemporary British Painting Prize and twice for the prestigious John Moore's Painting Prize.

Of her work Angela says "The language of 17th century Dutch art with it’s readymade gravitas - mortality, fragility, ostentation - is at the core of my practice. I combine it with kitsch objects, fairies and animated vegetables, investigating the tension between high and low art. The outwardly crafted and painterly focus of my paintings is a seductive ploy to slow down access to the embedded, sometimes absurd narrative within.

My cultural heritage is reflected in the paintings, a blend of Polish exotica and Cockney humour, which influences the work both atmospherically, emotively and aesthetically. Lockdown 2020 gave me time to take an in-depth look at the flora and fauna of the domestic garden and to reevaluate it as a subject to draw on alongside art historical sources. I now grow and photograph my own flowers, intertwining gardening within my art practice." 

https://www.angelalizon.com

Horseman 20 x 15 cm  oil on canvas
Athena and Ares. Divine Retribution 100 x 120 cm oil on canvas
Scotch Argus. 10 x 8 cm oil on canvas
An Autumnal Still life in the Time of Climate Change 136 x 176 cm oil on canvas
Horsemen (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)  90 x 120 cm oil on canvas
All we like Sheep (The Chosen Ones) 150 x 100 cm oil on canvas