Elizabeth-Jane Grose
Land-based Textiles and Drawing
Working out of a resurrected wagon house on a 6-acre holding overlooking the Camel Estuary in North Cornwall, Elizabeth-Jane Grose is an artist embedded in her surroundings.
Her work is a record of a small patch of rural life and manifests her interest in nature, sustainability and traditional rural industries.
For the past twenty years Elizabeth-Jane has been walking the Cornish Coast Path, collecting images and ideas for this ongoing body of work. Over this time, she has also developed a small flock of native and rare breed sheep, kept on the six acres where she works. There she also grows plants such as willow, ash, woad, nettles and apple to dye the wool from the sheep. These home-grown materials are used to create large scale, dynamic landscape images drawn from the process of walking the landscape.
Her way of working with these materials creates surfaces which seem alive, drawing the eye across the picture plane as colours and textures ebb and flow, generating feelings that range from calm to vertigo in the viewer.