Liz Butler RWS ARCA
English miniature and landscape painter in watercolours.
Liz Butler was born in Cumbria and educated at Liverpool
College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She is well known for her
miniature paintings of gardens, and her use of pure watercolour, which she has
always favoured for its brilliance and transparency. More recently she has
expanded her scale to encompass larger scale subject matter. She has always
been interested in man's role in changing the countryside and nature, which has
recently led her to introduce figures into her new paintings of Morocco and
Zanzibar.
She was elected an Associate of the Royal Watercolour
Society in 1996 and a full member in 2000.
Her work is in several major collections including the Government
Art Collection, Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, the Royal Collection, Harewood
House and the National Postal Archive.
Grasse is the only subprefecture of the
Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
region on the French Riviera. Considered the world's capital of perfume, Grasse
obtained two flowers in the Concours des villes et villages fleuris and was
made Ville d'Art et d'Histoire (City of Art and History).