10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION IN EBELTOFT

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Returning to her Bangkok studio, Elizabeth’s African adventure
pushed her to re-examine the process and technical methodology
of her previous creative output. The result has been a remarkable
transformation and a new level of maturity for the artist.Bangkok
based artist Elizabeth Romhild returns to her native Denmark for
her much anticipated 10th anniversary exhibition at Ebeltoft Kunst
Forening. Self-taught Danish-Armenian artist Elizabeth presents her
most recent series of oil canvases alongside haunting new sculptures.

Spending her childhood in Iran, with her adult years spent in Saudi
Arabia, America, Indonesia, and nearly the last two decades in her
adoptive home of Thailand, Elizabeth’s unique heritage and worldly
experiences instil her creativity with distinct individuality. In Dawn,
Elizabeth has awoken to a new artistic era in her career.

Always searching for fresh artistic directions, Elizabeth recently
embarked upon an investigative journey into to the expansive wild
savannahs of Africa. During her explorations, she was profoundly
affected by the primordial majesty of both the bestial inhabitants
and the nomadic tribe’s folk.

Returning to her Bangkok studio, Elizabeth’s African adventure pushed
her to re-examine the process and technical methodology of her previous
creative output. The result has been a remarkable transformation and
a new level of maturity for the artist.

Invoking ancient civilisations closer to her adopted Asia, several of
Elizabeth’s latest artworks imbue the historic monumentality of the
towering Buddha statues of Thailand’s lost kingdoms or the carved
stone busts in Cambodia’s ruined palaces. Intimate and penetrative
in their singular proximity, the timeless, totemic quality of the
solitary tribesmen in Trance, Warrior, and Enigma, are akin to the
introspective, majestic sandstone portraits of Ankor Wat’s 12th
century ruler King Jayavarman VII.

Perhaps it’s the sculptural quality of her most recent paintings
that have driven Elizabeth to expand her artistic sensibility and
create her first three-dimensional works. Further enhancing the sense
of physicality and earthiness of her African imagery, her haunting
sculptural manifestations of bestial skulls and horns remind viewers of
the harsh cyclical nature of survival and to our own fragile mortality.