In the "Art" and Science of Nursing, the "Art" has been called a "Helping Art". It is an enabling, empowering and transforming Art. I have seen how painting too can be enabling, empowering and theraputic, both to do and to see. Art can express things that words cannot, maybe this is why I love it so much.
Elizabeth Jane Hayward 2022
About the Artist
KNOWN AS LIZZIE
Born and brought up in Norfolk, Lizzie is a retired Nurse with 38 years dedicated to working on the front line of the NHS.
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Before retiring Lizzie took part in life classes taught by British Artist Will Teather and joined a local Art group where she rekindled her passion to draw and paint. She wanted to learn to paint in oils and to make Art the next challenge in her life.
She successfully completed the Diploma in Oil Painting at Martin Kinnear's world renowned Norfolk Painting School. This was a turning point in her life as a whole new world of Art was opened up to her. Lizzie was taught the traditional skills of the Masters and discovered the joy of painting in oils using both traditional and contemporary methods.
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So inspired by all that she has learnt in recent years, who knows where this may lead.
This benchmark piece was a second go at a Study of ‘Roses’ by Abbott Handerson Thayer. I chose this painting by chance. I was drawn to the natural cut of the Roses as though they had just been brought in from the garden. They had buds a-new and older blooms which, to me, represented a circle of life. I loved the classical way that it had been painted, the soft background, the visible brush marks in the foreground and the overall colours and accents. I decided to add my nursing buckle to the Study to represent a transition from one passion in my life to another.