Shifting Careers
Watch Tower, 2012 – Elizabeth Pawle.
“Even as a tiny child I loved to create things with my hands but I grew up to become a journalist and only began the shift towards a career in art in 2010, when I had a relief print hung in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. After my son was born in 2011, I started drawing again and today I work on a small scale, mainly in ink and pencil although I also love oil pastels.
Township, 2012 – Elizabeth Pawle.
“Township – I grew up in a village and I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of small communities and the way in which their inhabitants interact with one another. This drawing is completed in ink, pencil and pastels, and I love the contrast between the bold blue strokes and the clean ink and pencil lines.
Conference of Bears, 2011 – Elizabeth Pawle.
“I don’t know why bears appear so often in my work, but they fascinate me and with this drawing I wanted to create the atmosphere that would emerge from a collection of bears. The result is solemn but never fails to make me smile. I love collections of things – houses, animals, lines and marks – and this is often reflected in my work.
Badgers on a Thursday Evening, 2012 – Elizabeth Pawle.
“I spent part of my childhood at my grandparents’ hilltop home where badgers lived in every field. My parents would take me and my sister out at night to watch them and these were some of my happiest evenings. When I work with ink I always use a dip pen so for this illustration to come from nowhere and be recorded so quickly, one Sunday morning recently, is unusual, but I love it!
Elizabeth doesn’t have a website, but the good news is that you can purchase some of her adorable illustrations via Etsy! All you need to do is visit Elizabeth Pawle’s Store.
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You are so amazingly tatelned and creative! I look forward to reading your blog almost daily just to see what new ideas you have come up with. I LOVE the photos you have taken of my Maxwell. You seem to capture his little personality in every picture you take! Thank you!!!