Elizabeth Scrivener - animal and human portrait artist
Elizabeth Scrivener (nee Rowley Williams) born and grew up in the countryside of the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales in 1953. Her love of the countryside and animals stemmed from her early years, as did her passion for studying how animals behave in both wild and domesticated environments. After school she had a variety of jobs cooking and working with animals across the British Isles and Ireland before her artistic talents were recognized. Shortly after this she met and married her husband, an army officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. This led to a great deal of ‘following the drum’ which meant much disruption to her career as an artist. However she persevered, painting in the odd room of various quarters adapted as a makeshift studio until, in 1993, she and John finally settled in North Wales close to where she was born. With the conversion of the old dairy and associated buildings she finally had the studio that she had always craved.
Since then she has developed her painting career, mainly in oils, but also in pastels, a range of subjects from animals in their natural environment to portraits of people. She has exhibited her work in Germany and in the United Kingdom in London and across the country and through Sally Mitchell Fine Arts. Elizabeth is an accomplished and natural horsewoman as well as being highly qualified in the complementary healing arts of Photonic Therapy and Equine Touch, and she and John are surrounded by a variety of animals, including horses, dogs and cats, not to mention chickens and free range guinea pigs. They have a son and daughter who are both grown up and are artisans in their own right, one being a dry stone waller and the other a freelance cook and snowboarding instructor.
