ELIZABETH SCHIPPERT:

MEDIA: All drawing and painting media, collage, lithography and intaglio printmaking, pochoir.

SUBJECT MATTER:  Essential structure of a thing, a place, figure or concept; often employing imagination to distill interactions of form, value and color in a succinct and meaningful composition.  She also does illustrations and considers commissions.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:  After studying Art and Biology at Emmanuel College in Boston,  Lizzi went on to study at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; at the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.  She focused on classical techniques in printmaking,  figure and portrait drawing and painting, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy, to mention some disciplines.  She developed a unique printmaking technique out of the classic hand-coloring medium pochoir, which utilizes stencils and airbrush.  This technique is included in the 1990 edition of the SECRETS OF BUYING ART, by Wenniger and Wenniger, Betterway Pub.
     A professional artist since 1973,  Lizzi has exhibited her work in over 35 Solo Exhibitions nationwide, in Sweden, Japan and the Caribbean, with five shows in Manhattan. An award-winning artist in several media, Lizzi has exhibited in group and invitational events stretching from Hawaii to Sweden for the past 35 years. These venues range from a solo invitational billboard in Columbus Ohio to Art Expo in New York.  Her work is held in museum and public venues in Sweden, in many  public, corporate and private collections nationwide and beyond.  Full resume available upon request.
     Lizzi will teach self-portraiture at the Teen Arts Festival, Brokdale College, sponsored by MCAC, in March, ’07.

OPEN YOUR EYES:
     Lizzi and her husband, artist Sven Widen, established OPEN YOUR EYES in 1993 to provide Art Instruction and International Art Workshops.  As a teaching team, Lizzi and Sven have offered art instruction and inspiration in Red Bank since 1995.  Sven and Lizzi regularly offer Plein Air Workshops in New Jersey during the warm months. 
     Together, they have led Travel Art Workshops in Maine, Monhegan Island, ME, Vermont, Florida, France and Japan. Upcoming Cultural and Art Trips include Classic Florence and Venice, September, ’07 and A Cherry Blossom Tour, Japan, Spring, ’08.  These two trips are sponsored by Classic Travel, Inc. (including Michaelangelo Tours of Italy) of Oakhurst, NJ. 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Juried member of the New Jersey Watercolor Society
Instructor and member at Ocean County Artists Guild, Island Heights, NJ
Instructor and member the Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ
Exhibiting artist member and instructor the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ
Arts Partner as OPEN YOUR EYES with the Monmouth County Art Council, Red Bank, NJ

Elizabeth's gallery