The language of 17th century Dutch art with it’s readymade gravitas – mortality, fragility,
ostentation – is at the core of Lizon’s practice. Combining the bouquet with kitsch objects, fairies
and animated vegetables she investigates the tension between high and low art. Mostly growing
the flowers she paints, Lizon uses the still-life as a setting for allegorical narratives.
Angela Lizon was born in London and studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic and postgraduate
study at Krakow Academy of Fine Art in Poland. She is an Academician and Vice President at the
RWA in Bristol.
Selected recent exhibitions: 2025: Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, Cork St; Wonderland (2
person show), James Freeman Gallery, London; Strange Magic, Andelliart, Wells; Sunny Side Up,
Close Gallery, Somerset; 2024: Fauna, RWA, Bristol; Artist of the Day, Flowers Gallery, Cork St;
Contemporary British Painting Prize, London, Cardiff and Sheffield; 2023: John Moores Painting
Prize 2023 and 2012, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; 2022: postTRUTH at postRoom, London; Still
Life with Flowers, Rye Art Gallery; Unstable Monuments, Old Magistrates Court, Bristol; Me,
Myself, I, Artists’ Self Portraits, RWA, Bristol
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