Elizabeth Kent

Fine Art

About

Elizabeth is a British artist making contemporary mirror artworks and works on paper. She uses materials and techniques associated with the decorative crafts including hand-silvering, glass gilding and reverse glass painting. With a background in Fine Art Sculpture she follows an experimental pathway in her practice, working across mediums to develop ideas. She creates unique pieces, limited edition collections and site-specific commissions.

Elizabeth has shown her work in art fairs, commercial galleries and museums in the UK, including the V&A Museum. She has produced bespoke pieces commissioned through art consultants and interior designers and her work is held in a number of private collections.

“My pieces are often a hybrid form of window and mirror. I try to visualise and open up a threshold space, where the viewer is on the edge of two connected worlds.”

Elizabeth Kent

Process

Elizabeth considers each work as a form of lightscape, where fleeting impressions of light, reflection and landscape form are re-composed and materialised in layers of reflective metals and pigments on glass. She develops drawings in parallel to the mirror pieces to consider pattern, silhouettes and gradients of reflection, primarily exploring ‘play of light’ and reflective space as a stimulus for connection, absorption and contemplation.

Larger scale works focus on immersive lightscapes, where the viewer is incorporated, made visible through fine layers of liquid silver. Their reflected image dissolving and re-appearing in fine, silvery atmospheres - suggestive of clouds, vapour, bodies of water and veiled perspectives through foliage, curtains and glass windows.

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