https://www.lizmcqueen.com/news daily 0.75 2026-05-08 https://www.lizmcqueen.com/home daily 1.0 2026-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/443175b9-a8d4-4d96-adae-cdecda3c1c47/69A4BB04-AA94-4774-BE23-FEAF686A888E.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/ca317137-2b7a-4df0-8af4-5d8ed50e0eda/background+page+4.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/71cab2cd-30be-4293-8e00-11d16c495817/Liz+new+bio+pic.jpg https://www.lizmcqueen.com/about daily 0.75 2026-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/d750aacc-d3f7-49c9-a140-c16821281586/6E941EA3-5C92-41BB-87E5-9B824331AC72.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/be251759-2e59-4b23-b926-d5c56fb4dacc/F39BEA49-426F-4B8C-9079-56D75BD06207.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/e8a2afcf-733c-4665-9007-c8831914b9f7/79C7E52C-D8EA-484D-8197-E822D8B88A27.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/70c27e4b-fd11-481a-be26-e5074660084b/FEA5C1F5-B135-4CC4-9B39-F90BA27F0105.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/df37ee43-d8d2-4f91-9f0a-44acda9b12d8/55516FD4-9655-47DD-BEE1-E1285A158D95.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/f00e9c3f-6325-4d3f-ba40-d64e4fb3f907/F367940D-AA1C-4097-B426-CDD38A96BA4D.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/8102eb6c-a1c7-4cf7-a239-a07420e04f7b/B54875A8-6FC4-4DEF-A4F7-6088EEF7C30A.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/997286e5-4ed8-4904-bf08-e1d020d4df98/CDE5ECBB-29DF-4625-AF87-7E2894485AEA.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/ec72e3ee-1248-4ab9-84d4-8506ea75b46a/22618F75-5A9E-4113-B9AC-0D62D1D99F1F.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/da2ec143-56a7-4e46-a432-c98565c81506/0694A8D0-3DE2-4F52-A8C0-90A1641818EE.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/07dedb22-d817-4d37-bc78-54722821b3eb/925D4B78-AC53-43FC-AFF9-4D49213D3CF5.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/a6b17c77-025a-4e99-93db-05decc527dde/508E6A18-1FD5-4C41-9A7F-FEB3405B2FF5.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/71ee6772-bbd2-4ea1-84ab-cf8771cd761e/DAC4FE37-A253-4880-A229-AFA68AE9A427.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/b1898c0b-7936-49eb-857d-1a36d6f0ac63/3E993EB9-77B5-42B9-B111-485361458D9E.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/397ad251-bb40-4413-84b3-906f5846debb/IMG_0593.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/571ef2f7-6990-4b0e-9b73-ab979be293d8/IMG_0013.JPG About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/449a2d98-9820-416b-b66e-49f938787491/pink+moon.jpeg About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/75afdef0-cfe2-48c5-9c63-e8660a890ce2/1579F217-4485-4E10-A9A9-A9AA43DD7B8C.JPG About Me - Introduction I'm a landscape artist based in Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, originally from Anglesey in North Wales. I studied at Winchester School of Art, graduating with a BA Hons in Fine Art, and I'm a member of Visual Arts Scotland and the Society of Scottish Artists. Since 2023 I've worked with OutPost Arts as Adult Creative Wellbeing Lead, running the Art Journal Project — a social prescribing programme supporting adults across Dumfries and Galloway to engage with creative practice for wellbeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/b4a5ddcf-d683-4b4b-847c-aee384ae821f/liz+12.JPG About Me Inspiration The valley has been inhabited for thousands of years and is littered with archaeological remains. From stone circles to sheep folds, Hut circles and hill forts to more recent changes caused by commercial forestry and agriculture. There are shapes and scars of human habitation all over the place and discovering them on foot fascinates me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/db4f330e-b021-48e5-a3d9-53da393ed6d0/675F807C-9A8F-41E1-9BA5-A54943E314B0.jpg About Me - Practice Walking is integral to my painting practice. I carry a small kit — graphite, charcoal, ink, a pocket sketchbook — and explore the moorlands, forestry tracks and river banks of this valley, noticing — lichen on stone walls, a knot of hawthorn, yellow ochre pebbles, newts in puddles. Back in the studio, larger surfaces cover the floor — paper, canvas, mount board — and the same themes are worked more abstractly. Shapes distil down. A block of forestry becomes a band of dark colour. The large paper works reach the most abstract territory; on canvas I'm working to get there too. I work with water-based media — ink, watercolour and earth pigments — responding to what the medium wants to do rather than imposing on it. This landscape is scarred and layered with deep time — stone circles, hill forts, plantation forestry — and I believe our connection to and care for a place comes from knowing it intimately, from the ground up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/d5764718-5778-462b-867c-01b77e4be410/liz+on+beach.webp About Me How I got here I grew up on Ynys Môn, a short walk from Traeth Coch — a vast tidal estuary where you had to know the quicksand and the tide changes or you'd get cut off. I learned to read that landscape through years of exploring. That knowledge is in the body now. Foundational to the visual language I think in. At Winchester School of Art I kept returning to the same territory — walking as method, place as self-portrait. I mapped footpaths around Winchester, documented pilgrim routes, experimented with film photography and installation, and researched 1970s feminist artists asking the same questions about body, landscape and identity. Then motherhood and family life, and art dropped away entirely. In 2015, living in Greater Manchester with postnatal depression and no support network, Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way helped me find my way back to making. When we moved to Eskdalemuir in 2017 I started painting landscape again — small work, thumbnail scale, paying attention to what was directly in front of me. That practice has deepened steadily since, through sobriety, and through understanding my own trauma and neurodivergence. Landscape functions for me as visual metaphor — for the self, for recovery, for things that are otherwise hard to articulate. It is the same understanding that underpins the Art Journal Project: that paying attention to an external landscape — its geology, its scars, its seasonal shifts — is a workable method for understanding what is happening inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/f33340f5-8c17-480d-bff8-f04a2de8f2c4/studio+1.jpeg About Me - Exhibitions and Development Current: Royal Cambrian Academy Open 2026; Spring Fling Open Studios 2026, Eskdalemuir Recent exhibitions: DECADE, Kirkcudbright Galleries (2025); Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize, Oriel Môn, Anglesey (2024); Royal Cambrian Academy Annual Open, Conwy (2024) Current: Royal Cambrian Academy Open 2026; Spring Fling Open Studios 2026, Eskdalemuir Professional development: VACMA-funded mentoring with Samantha Clark (2024–25); Language of the Land with Tamsin Loxley, Land Art Collective (2026) Visit my Studio https://www.lizmcqueen.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/83f1aca6-6ed2-499a-bcb0-53b83688f52a/studio+2.jpeg Contact - Spring Fling Open Studio 2026 Open Studios takes place later this month, over bank holiday weekend. Liz McQueen | Studio 103 | Red Route 23 - 25 May 10 am - 5.30 pm If you would like to visit my studio outside of Spring Fling, please contact me via email or connect with me on facebook or instagram to arrange a mutually convenient time. https://www.lizmcqueen.com/gallery daily 0.75 2026-05-08 https://www.lizmcqueen.com/gallery/project-three-fmmh4 monthly 0.5 2026-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/b8e326b0-8d5b-4b13-abb5-b730f0ec4780/IMG_6094.jpeg Gallery - Sketchbooks Walk along the White Esk river, just along from King's Pool 07/22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/76b7b610-db60-4da6-96b0-8dcd0847140c/IMG_5827.jpeg Gallery - Sketchbooks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/de61469d-fd9d-4d07-8561-a15b4dc12e17/IMG_5417.jpeg Gallery - Sketchbooks Walking the path less travelled nr Castle O'er forest 06/22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6261272985f6867d8ad5dd17/7f574f84-c12a-41d1-999c-94ab271991f6/IMG_5414.jpeg Gallery - 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