Elizabeth Moore Golding

At the Ruth Tuck School of Art in Adelaide I learnt to be generous with watercolour and to use a dip pen to describe images. Ruth encouraged colour and movement and characterful images and to be impressionistic. I still love to paint people and love colour.

After a number of years of teaching children and then adult student teachers, I was delighted eventually to spend more time on my art and I renewed my membership of the VAS. An invitation to join their untutored Friday Group in 2015 and to paint live models was just what I wanted. To be surrounded by talented artists, some of whom have been awarded VAS Artist of the Year, and many of whom are multi-awarded, was and is exciting. It is fulfilling to be expressive without the pressure of performing.

As a member of the VAS the opportunity arose to enter exhibitions which I have been doing since 2016 and I began entering other art competitions. I then had the unexpected pleasure to receive a number of Highly Commended awards at VAS exhibitions, to receive the important Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (MSWPS) Award on three occasions (twice jointly), and to receive Best in Show, First and Second Prizes at the Royal Melbourne Show and major awards at the Camberwell Art Show, amongst others. 

I love to view original paintings in galleries, to look closely to try and detect colours used and follow the brush strokes. I particularly love impressionistic and fauvist art, but I don’t wish to slavishly follow someone else’s style of painting.