BIOGRAPHY

Artist and photographer, Elizabeth Josephine’s work has been described as ethereal and other worldly.

Elizabeth’s iconic photographic & digital art collages use both 2 dimensional and 3D elements bringing them to life, based in both digital and film photography, digital and analogue collage and mixed media pieces from the worlds of fashion and nature, taking the viewer on a journey while editing, rearranging, repurposing and juxtaposing elements of her personal journey, memories, life, experiences and pieces she has collected along the way that forged her unravelling and making sense of her own self and inner world. A life long passion for yoga, dance, island life comes through in her work. A love of sparkling sea, golden sand beaches and sunshine is interpreted through her use of the diamond dusting technique favoured by Andy Warhol as well as the use of gold leaf, and metalics.

She is also fond of creating illustrative water colour style works as a digital artists. Creating ‘light beings’ , creatures that are part female, part insect. Delving into her imagination from a childhood spent in the English Countryside, her love of illustrative children’s books combined with influences of courture fashion. To create exotic characters within richly coloured floral environments.

During her career that spans 25 years within the creative industries she has also collaborated with an array of iconic global brands including whilst working with film direcotrs on campaigns for Mercedes Benz, Dior, BMW, Lacoste.

Elizabeth is based between Palma, Mallorca and London working from her studio in Mallorca whilst spending time in the UK where she enjoys time in London as well as the countryside, she’s inspired by English country gardens, the creativity of fashion, music of the capital as well as the beauty of the Mediteranean and Balearic islands which she has called home for 16 years.

With a focus on desire, femininity, nature, escapism, memory, fantasy, transformation, wellbeing, dream realms, flora, transcendence, what lies beneath the veil, the various aspects of self, realms we can’t see, energy we feel and experience, yet can not see.

The artist iconic imagery stems from a lifetime of working with the worlds leading image makers and visual storytellers, a cinematic eye, with influences from the world of film and advertising. Fashion, beauty, art and design, as well as her own journey and growth of being a woman, emotionally, physically, through the journeys of age, neuro diversity, travel, spirituality, transformation.

From traveling the world and living in many countries, her influences from early youth in Asia through to 16 years of living in Ibiza. It’s magic, it’s focus on nature and wellbeing through exposure to the elements.

Broadhurst’s training is as varied dimploma’s in Graphic Design, cinematography, a Bachelor visual communications, and her 25 year caera as a global art director.

The untamed natural beauty inside versus the staged, polished, edited and cropped versions that we present to others and consume daily. A sterile "face" or image of anonymity filled with so much emotion, all that burns underneath the "skin". The images leave you with a pretty picture that is complete but also incomplete, letting your imagination take over. A memory, a prompt to look within yourself, an emotion, a colour, a smell. Beauty exists in all that is around us, in nature, in simplicity, even in the mundane. Let her carefully staged compositions seduce you to find the hidden beauty within us all.

The artist see’s beauty in the hues of the ocean, she imagines beauty in unexpected forms, she loves to merge concepts and imagery to create new form. Her work is playful, intriguing, beautiful and evocative.