About Liz Graham-Yooll

For most of my adult life I have lived in Italy, which gave me huge opportunity to paint outside in the landscape.

I had started off as a watercolour painter, since I have always loved the luminous quality of watercolours, but in the great summer heat I found them difficult since they dried almost at the moment they hit the paper and so I started to paint in oil which is much easier to handle in very hot weather.

I have always loved painting “en pleine air” and because of the urgency to capture the moment, it rather dictates your style of painting. In the summer heat, my oil paintings that I made outdoors began to have  a very  different quality to studio works, since the paint dries quickly and becomes less manipulative and controlled. Of course, in the winter this is completely reversed with paint becoming almost too maniputalive!

On large paintings, I start off with drawings, small oils, or watercolours on the spot and then with the "aide memoire" of photographs, I can work in the comfort of my studio.

My main interests are to do with my environment; landscape, weather, skies, gardens and animals, with still-life during the winter months..