By Liz Wickramasinghe
2025
acrylic on board
32.7x27.5cm framed
$750
ARTIST STATEMENT
Liz Wickramasinghe’s richly layered paintings explore the landscapes, ecologies, and botanica of her local environments on Wadawurrung Country (Bellarine and the Surf Coast). Surrounded by marshy wetlands and native grasslands in Armstrong Creek, she draws inspiration from the natural forms that shape her surroundings. Through a combination of painting, masking, and relief-printmaking techniques, Liz explores layering, repetition, linework, and pattern, reflecting the naturally recurring rhythms, diversities and complexities found in the landscape. These methods highlight the textures and motifs that have become signatures of her visual language, resulting in intricate and textured surfaces. Her work also seeks to capture the movement and quiet wonder of these environments, inviting viewers to experience the sense of awe she finds in these natural places.
BIO
Liz Wickramasinghe is an artist living and working on Wadawurrung Country in Greater Geelong, Victoria. After completing a design degree, she went on to study visual and fine art, developing a distinctive multilayered practice that blends painting and printmaking. She has worked in a variety of gallery and education settings, including at the NGV and as a secondary school art teacher. Liz now works as a high-school relief art teacher and gallery assistant at Boom Gallery while continuing her professional art practice, which she has pursued for six years. Outside of work, she enjoys gardening, travelling, and spending time with her friends, family, and her husband and two sons.