Liz Bailey is a British artist who lives and works in London and the Welsh borders. In her work, she questions and visualises the overlapping borders between nature and culture, memory and forgetting, private and public. She makes paintings of structures where natural forms co-exist within the urban landscape and also interrogates instances of man's intervention within the rural landscape. Her meticulous looking and rendering through paint, film and in drawing highlight overlooked juxtapositions that reveal our complex relationship with nature. Her paintings are devoid of people and instead, lives are assumed, even in this absence.
Her depictions of trees in many works are used as metaphors for other issues such as 'silent witnesses' to events, as memorials, implying political and environmental issues and as a metaphor for the self or national identity. She uses the 'tree' as an archetypal symbol of landscape painting and as a motif to help convey her ideas about the world around us.
She is interested in the crossover between art and anthropology. Her previous studies in both disciplines and her extensive travels around the world, feed into and inform her practice.