Elizabeth Ashworth is a Canadian artist who has created, shown, and sold her works nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Her media foci are sculpture and photography. She likes to create relief sculptures from found objects (natural and human made) and photograph remote places and unusual views of less-remote ones. Elizabeth has works in public collections in Canada and Australia as well as private collections in Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. To learn more about Elizabeth’s works, please go to her website: www.trouveofakind.com
StatementMost of my sculptural works are reliefs made from natural materials. I collect these materials from beaches near my home and they include shells, rocks, driftwood, bark, kelp, and barnacles. These materials bring me peace because I gather them during stress-relieving walks. They also bring me joy because I select items that inspire whimsical works of art: a curved piece of driftwood becomes the base for an ‘undersea garden’, a selection of barnacles becomes an imaginative ‘flower’, a kelp holdfast becomes a ‘tree’ in a landscape.
