Elizabeth Braid - Artist

23/07/2023

Check out some of my paintings that are a part of this exhibition if you find yourself in Launceston!

Exclusively on display at QVMAG.

16/12/2022

I look out to the sea rising and falling. I think how peaceful it will be to dive under those waves.
I breathe fast as I walk towards the water. I tell myself softly. I have not come here to go swimming.
I have come to the sea to be held. (Tamsin Calidas, I am an Island)

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Would you like any of these pieces for your own home? Shop Rising Simmer Exhibition exclusively on my website >
https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/shop

13/12/2022

We are all mostly water. And the moon also pulls our tides within, drawing us into our own depths, even as we resist. Here I am usually swimming within my sel-imposed flags. Dipping my toes in and retreating to paddle in the shallows of my life. What is she saying to me, with this shimmering surface, this ripple effect? ‘Risk all, dive in and break the shimmering beauty of our surface life, and allow these tidal currents to take us deeper into ourselves, our mysteries, our undiscovered oceans.’ We can - if we allow the sensuous sea-breeze to caress our sun-kissed, sea-salt skin - choose to venture beyond the safekeeping of our harbors. We can experience the tides of unknown destiny, and open up the feared, the passionate, the vulnerable, the erotic, and all the potential that the deeper dive promises us, from the ocean of our inner selves.

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Capture these moments for your home, Rising Simmer is available to purchase exclusively through my website > https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/shop

08/12/2022

We all go down the sea in some way, and fear the deep, and watch our raging storms and desires lift us up, almost destroy us and then return to a quiet shimmering beauty.

Rising Shimmer Exhibition is now available to purchase exclusively through my website > https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/shop

06/12/2022

Christmas shopping for an artist this year?
My exclusive originals are available to purchase through my website. > https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/shop

This work has been selected as a finalist for the City of Devonport Tasmanian Art Award tidal.22!

05/12/2022

This is the final week my exhibition, Rising Shimmer is available to view in Devonport!

Full details can be found on my website!
https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/rising-shimmer

02/12/2022

Without knowing why, rising from this shimmer, my imagination runs wild. Standing here by the edge of her, and staring across the sequined fabric of her surface, I suddenly see a future horror. A dread. It is no longer an inner journey. No longer a sensual encounter between skin and sea. Instead, something dystopian rises from the horizon - an emerging future for Bass Strait of salmon farms, of corruption, of compromise. A future of refuse, oil slicks, cruelty, algae, and our sea shimmers no more. Today it is not the romantic beauty of her pushing my brush, it is these darker destinies she sends in her silent code, of wind on water, if we don’t listen and heed.

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Explore, For a limited time, Rising Simmer Exhibition. On show now until December 10 at Devonport Regional Gallery.

30/11/2022

Limited-release watercolour artwork to style your space with ocean hues in greens and blues. Available to purchase exclusively through my website.

> https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/shop

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Elizabeth Braid is a Finalist for Tasmanian Art Award tidal.22 and has work currently featured in the emerging artist program at Devonport Regional Gallery.

28/11/2022

Are you looking for something to do in Devonport this week? My exhibition - Rising Shimmer - is featured at Little Gallery in the Emerging Artist Program
Devonport Regional Gallery
For a Limited time until December 10!

Let me know if you stop by!
Full details can be found on my website > https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/rising-shimmer

25/11/2022

24/11/2022

Colours and shapes of Bass Strait through the seasons, using watercolour on a range of textured papers.
For a limited time on show now until December 10 at Devonport Regional Gallery.

Full details can be found on my website > https://www.elizabeth-braid.com/rising-shimmer