Elizabeth Kilby

5 Ullswater Road
Coventry
CV3 2DH
Tel : 02476 455226

Carnival, ancient culture and theatrical presentation of poetry and plays inspire my ideas.  Carnival and ancient culture use masks, while theatrical presentation encompasses scenery, cast and text.

Backdrops are my landscapes, heads masked and unmasked my cast, and text gives me situations.

Intensity and transparency of colour is attained by using mixed media on canvas, panel, metal, Perspex and acetate film – using, in fact, materials of which masks are made.  Collage using acetate film, allows me to maximise the intensity of colour and texture of my own original work, creating new relationships.

Someone once said: “True art remains the same as always – faith and total belief in the essence of an idea – and seeing that idea come to fruition. Art can be more or less anything – it is up to the artist to decide this – and to take responsibility”.  I do relate to this.

TRAINING:  Coventry Polytechnic and Leamington College

Artist in residence at Binley Woods Middle School.  Schools’ Liaison Officer for the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick.

OPEN EXHIBITIONS:  Royal Academy, London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Mall Galleries, London.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:  International Exhibition in France;  CBSO Centre, Birmingham

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:  ‘Genesis’, The Formation Creative Consultants Ltd, London;  ‘Such Stuff as dreams are made on’, Kenilworth Library;  ‘Six Portraits’  Belgrade Theatre, Coventry;’Act II’, Talisman Theatre, Kenilworth;  ‘Imagination Bodies Forth The Forms’, Jane Powell Gallery, Kenilworth; ‘All the World’s a Stage’, The Gallery Restaurant, Earlsdon, Coventry.

AWARD:  3^rd place in Metallised Paper Category, API Foils Ltd ‘Awards in Excellence Compatition for ‘Magus’

Paintings this page Copyright © 2008 Elizabeth Kilby