WSA Artist of the Month, March 2019
Meet Liz Gorman…
Liz Gorman grew up in Wellesley and has always been interested in the arts. While majoring in Art at Skidmore College, she concentrated on large abstract oil paintings. After graduating she enjoyed a long career at Houghton Mifflin Publishing and continued developing as a strong draftsman.
After marrying another Wellesley native and having two girls, she left publishing but continued artistic pursuits. Her life became filled with the adventures of her two daughters, Vera and Juliana, and their many pets, including dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens and hamsters. During this time Gorman admired the works of Beatrix Potter, Tasha Tudor and Holly Hobbie. She began teaching children’s art classes at St. John’s in Wellesley and Five Crowes in Natick and now teaches middle schoolers at her dining room table. It is important to Gorman to instill the basic principles of drawing and color theory while doing different projects with her students.
One true love is capturing magical moments with her children and animals through her beautiful watercolors. Sitting at her dining room table, Gorman produced many lovely sketches and watercolors, as well as her own illustrated children’s stories made especially for Vera and Juliana. The girls are now quite involved in dance, another favorite subject for their mother.
Liz has studied watercolor painting with WSA’s Nan Rumpf and Sally Meding. Currently she is taking an online illustrating course called Marks and
Splashes. Gorman strives for “confident compositions and mark making.” She plans to next explore acrylic painting and work on larger pieces. Liz says, “I hope to live to be 100 years old because I have so many ideas to paint.”