Welcome to my creative space

Here you can explore more about my creative art practice and the ideas that inspire my work.

Many of the pieces displayed here are available for sale, and I also take on commissions from time to time for those looking for something personal and unique.

If you’re interested in purchasing a piece or discussing a commission, please feel free to get in touch.

Artist Statement — Liz Vowles

I use art to explore and express my inner experience, turning feeling into form.

I build marks, colours and textures that mirror the way emotions, memories and sensations rise, shift and settle within me. Each piece emerges through listening and responding rather than planning. Allowing the work to unfold as a record of presence, reflection and becoming.

Working primarily with acrylics, I build compositions through layers of colour, texture, and gesture. Circular forms often recur, suggesting cycles of breath, energy, and renewal. Each painting develops intuitively, guided by sensation rather than predetermined form.

Through my process, I seek to translate the unseen — the shifting states of emotion, presence, and energy — into visual language.

Why is creative expression, like movement and mindfulness so vital to health?

Creative expression, movement and mindfulness all work in the same essential way: they bring us back into relationship with our own inner experience. When we create, move, or rest with awareness, the nervous system receives the message that it is safe to feel, sense, and be present. This is not a luxury — it is how the body completes stress cycles, releases stored tension, and returns to balance.

In modern life we live largely from the neck up, constantly thinking, problem-solving and performing. When emotions, sensations and impulses are not given a way to move or be expressed, they don’t disappear — they become held in the body as tightness, fatigue, anxiety, inflammation and eventually burnout.

Creative expression, whether through art, yoga, breath or mindful movement, gives the body a language for what cannot always be spoken. It allows energy to flow again instead of getting stuck.

This is why weaving yoga, rest and art is so powerful.

Gentle movement helps regulate the nervous system, mindfulness creates a safe inner witness, and creativity gives form to what is being felt. Together they restore coherence between mind, body and heart, supporting not just emotional wellbeing but sleep, immunity, digestion and resilience. They remind the body how to feel alive, connected and at home within itself.

I studied art history and worked for years as an art educator in schools and museums before training as a yoga teacher. Both paths grew from the same place — a love of creativity, curiosity and inner experience. Today I bring these together through yoga, mindful movement and creative practice, offering a calm, supportive space where you can slow down, feel more at home in your body, and reconnect with what’s alive within you.