More About Liz

Artist, Horse girl, dog mom
 

I was born and raised on a small black angus cattle ranch in Southern Idaho. Art and sport horses were a curious attraction from a farm girl in a small town, but here we are many years later still painting and frolicking away on ponies almost every day.

I graduated college with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Studio Art and Design in 2015. After college I took the design rout and moved into media and marketing, painting for clients on the side. Working, riding, and painting left me begging for more hours in the day. In January 2024 I left my roll as a Marketing Director to paint full time, and I haven’t looked back once.

I’d consider my art to be “Expressionist Realism,” however that’s always subject to evolve. I consider my art and my riding to be the same as my yoga and my gardening - a practice. I will forever be a student of the work.

My paintings are generally a focus of a figure in motion; horses, dancers, anything that brings the silent energy that makes us pause. As a life long equestrian I draw a lot of my inspiration from experiences in the arena. I am constantly attracted to the parallels in complexity vs simplicity, and power vs grace.

If I’m not in the studio, I’m likely at the barn with my horse, Sam, or on an adventure with my husband, Hayden. Sam is a Thoroughbred Trakehner, currently 10 years old and competing in eventing. My husband Hayden and I live happily with our two dogs, Cleo the poodle and Molly the doodle. We love to travel, ski, and have recently picked up golf. We are pretty bad at it, honestly, but pretty great at enjoying the greens together.

You can follow my day to day in the studio on my Instagram @studiobyliz or on facebook /lizcomerhess