Elizabeth Turnbull

A self-taught intuitive ‘outsider’ artist born in Sydney, Australia, I began painting, drawing and printmaking in my mid-thirties in Brisbane in 1972 when the youngest of my four children commenced school. I have worked and exhibited in Australia and overseas in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and in Spain, where four of my paintings were included in the first major exhibition of ‘outsider’ art in Spain (El Arte Singular, Monasterio de Veruela, Zaragoza, 2001). I have taken part in previous Raw Art Festivals in London (2005), Valencia, Spain (2006) and New York (2007).

Strongly intuitive, my work has always celebrated female spirituality in general and the oneness of all humankind and nature. Early in 2002 a symbol emerged for me crystallizing thoughts and feelings I had long held of ‘The Ancestors’- as all humankind and all nature, present in all of us, in our very cells and in everything that exists, and also seeing us and all nature as being present in them: this resonates to me with many of the concepts of Taoism and, more recently, of quantum physics.

We are very, very old - the stuff of stars and the sea - yet ever new.

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