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 sculptures are relief works made from natural materials. I collect these materials from beaches near my home and they include shells, rocks, driftwood, bark, kelp, and barnacles. I choose former living materials specifically that have been tossed by the ocean and dried naturally on the beach. Although they were living and are now dead and still, I give them a new life in whimsical works of art: a curved piece of driftwood becomes the base for an ‘undersea garden’, kelp buds and holdfasts become miniature ‘trees’, and kelp fronds of various sizes become a ‘family’. Despite being ‘stilled’ by nature and glued ‘still’ in their frames, the natural materials continue to evoke the colours, shapes, and textures of when they were alive on land and in the sea.
