About Me
Hi, I'm Lizzie, full name Elizabeth Lee, a visual artist and art student wishing to leave her mark in this lifetime. I use art to reflect and respond to the way I see the world around me. My goal as an artist is to capture my experience having both BPD and synesthesia while pushing my creative limits to tell stories of my thoughts, feelings and the life around me as the years go by. I’m constantly learning more about myself and this world through my peculiar lens, documenting everything through my art.
Artist Position Statement
What does contemporary art mean to me?
I consider contemporary art a celebration of humanity and our innate creative force and capabilities. On one hand, contemporary art is a powerful, universal method of communicating feelings and ideas that has the ability to create change in the world, and yet on the other hand sometimes you’re just having fun exploring different visual compositions, experimenting with whatever your heart desires. That’s what I find beautiful about us human beings, we go about this world collecting countless, intricate personal experiences, unique to each one of us, which means we all have completely different perceptions of the world, different feelings to share and stories to tell. That’s what’s beautiful about expressing yourself authentically as an artist: you’re sharing your true creative nature, your raw, unique ideas and complicated feelings, and when you depict that within painting, there’s now a physical aspect to it, capturing a part of your life and existence as it becomes a part of history.
Modern-day painting is history. Not only are you physically making a mark in the world but you’re potentially planting ideas in people’s minds. Creativity is an ever expanding intricate collection of ideas and experiences that we’ve been passing on from one another all this time. We get inspired by one another. We have the ability to build-on and expand on each other's ideas and then create our own. It’s like we take parts of the physical world, internalize it, and then put it back out there into the world for others to interpret in their own way. That’s why I believe as modern-day artists, it is our duty to capture our authentic experiences, visions and ideas from the world. Whether your work is strong and political, or simple and colourful, painting should be a liberating medium that should help people express themselves more naturally through their authentic human nature, letting the artist tell a story through movement, space and time, using our 3D world as a canvas to create whatever your heart desires. As much as it is important to know art through its historical context, I believe it's also important to recognize the history that we are currently writing ourselves, the power we have over our own ideas. And so as artists and painters, as we emphasize our originality, as we interact and respond to the world around us...we create history. That’s what contemporary art means to me and what I wish to explore more through my own painting practice.