ABOUT THE ARTIST
Liz Riegel is an Oil Painter with a deep passion for education and making art accessible to people from all walks of life. In high school she left her legacy by means of teaching painting classes for the youth of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She spent her high school years creating murals as well as painting props and backdrops for her high school's drama department. In college, Liz pursued a degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in Oil Painting. At the start of Covid, she paused her education and has since worked across the East Coast as an Arts Instructor, mentor, and professional. Her work carried her most recently to Durham, NC where she is part of the Durham Art Guild as well as a resident Golden Belts Artist.
Biography
Artist Statement
My work is a deep dive into the psyche of each figure I paint. I am intrigued by all of the parts that create the person we have been, the person we now are, and the person we will become. I am fascinated by negative emotion--this stemmed from what I have felt was an inability to understand my own. In my paintings I study what pain looks like, where it comes from, what it does to us, and how we react to it. my paintings are meant to look calm at first glance, but they then blossom into this concealed reality where the psyche beneath is revealed. We are creatures of intrigue; we conceal ourselves behind a wall of what we think we are meant to be. I want to give that wall space in my work while simultaneously tearing it down.