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Liz Dorn
Please contact Liz Dorn at LizDorn@WhittierArtists.com
I started painting when I was four years old. My father was an artist, amateur photographer, and draftsman. After he and my mother parted company, I was not given any encouragement by my mother and gave up painting altogether. After returning to junior college about eight years ago, I was required to take art classes. I then remembered how much I had loved painting and drawing so I resumed painting and earned my AA degree in art and haven’t stopped since then.
I enjoy painting old houses and buildings with the look of a bygone era. Show me an old building with peeling paint, lots of texture, brick and stone walls that are falling down, and this is visual poetry to me. I also enjoy painting doorways, arches, and arcades. I completed a Brooklyn Doorway series of five water color paintings. I have used the urban decay theme in some of my paintings and would like to do many more. Realistically, this is what is happening to our large inner cities. What was once grand and beautiful has been neglected and no-one has the means for restoration. The recession has taken away the funds for historic preservation and unless neighborhood grass roots organizations recruit volunteers, a lot of these old structures will be gone forever.
I have also done a series of paintings of performers at the Renaissance Fair. I love the pageantry and color of the costumes from the wealthy noblemen to the peasants. The festive, slightly raucous atmosphere comes through in the whimsical expressions on the participants faces.
I was selected by the City of Brea to do a mural at a public bus shelter and it can be seen at the corners of Imperial and Brea Boulevard.
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