Up North! an Exhibition by Elizabeth Nast | Launch Event

Join us this spring for a solo show from artist Elizabeth Nast – “Up North! Beauty in the Ordinary, everyday scenes”.

Elizabeth though born in London, has since childhood lived in the north, studying in York and Leeds. Growing up in a household that was not particularly interested in Art, but with a mother who is fascinated by history, she spent family holidays in museums and stately homes. This was her introduction to art, the grand portraits and landscape on the walls of these houses, inspired an ambition in her to become an artist.

Her obsession with history has shown her, that the urban environment is predominantly shaped by the activities of the working-class average people throughout time, and just by looking at how they inhabit the world, you can see their influences shaping their environments. This is what drives Elizabeth to look to the towns and cities for inspiration.

Although she lives in the traditional beautiful countryside of East Yorkshire, Elizabeth loves to make the journey to some town or city, wandering around for hours just looking and taking photos of interesting people, building and landscapes, then working in her studio from the photographs she takes, using the traditional mediums of Watercolour, Acrylics, Pastels and Coloured Pencil to elevating scenes of the ordinary into works of art, making the viewer stop to think, just how interesting everyday life can be?