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Liz Nicol

Sea Lavender - cyanotype

Sea Lavender - cyanotype

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Title: Sea Lavender

Artist: Liz Nicol

Size: 49cm x 53cm

Type: Original Unique Print

Subject: Countryside

Medium: Cyanotype

Framed: Yes - Beautiful Hand Finished Gesso Frame

Field studies of the Venice Lagoon – is a long term project charting my understanding of the Venice Lagoon, responding to an environment and ecosystem that is complex and under threat. This project evidences the salt marshes known locally as the barene. Early experiments began in 2013 by making cyanotypes prints that were made on location, exposed to the sun and washed in the Lagoon. These were accompanied by black and white photographs viewing the waters edge taken from a small boat. Exhibited Torre Massimiliana in collaboration with jane da Mosto, Nella Veduta, 2016 (in the View)at Serra dei Giardini 2018 and Getting CLOSE notes from the Venice Lagoon, off_gallery Graz, Austria, 2024.

“A cyanotype, is a simple and elegant process, involving two chemical compounds: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. The paper is then dried in the dark and is ready to be placed under a negative (to make a print) or a flat object (to make a photogram) and exposed to the rays of the sun. The only other chemical compound involved is one that is often taken for granted: water. Simply washing the exposed cyanotype brings out the rich blue colour and makes the print permanent.”

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Liz Nicol

Liz Nicol is a photographer who lives and works in Exeter and Venice, recent projects are responses to ‘places of conflict’, including WW1 sites of commemoration (France and Belgium), the politically contested space of the Green Line (Cyprus) and the fragile ecological environment of the salt marshes of the Venetian Lagoon. The photographic element incorporates camera based and camera-less imagery, she predominantly works with black & white photography (analogue) and the historical process of the blueprint, the cyanotype.

Liz had an established career in education, as a teacher, and a senior manager. Her later research projects included a residency at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC) Cyprus that was established between the Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group at Plymouth University and NiMAC, 2013. As one of the co-investigators of Remember Me. The Changing face of Memorialisation, an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funded project in collaboration with Hull University (2015–2018), she developed an interest in the national identity of WW1 monuments and flowing from this is her commissioned project on the war cemeteries, designed by Edwin Lutyens.