Lizzie is fortunate to live close to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, where she obtains many of her specimens. Favourites are always bold, structural plants which themselves make a grand statement and which lead to careful, sometimes unconventional, composition.
She has exhibited work at the RHS Show in London three times and on each occasion was awarded a gold medal: the first in February 2000 for a series of plant portraits entitled Rare and Endangered Species from Socotra; the second in February 2002 for eight paintings of Climbing Plants from the Glasshouses at RBGE and the third in January 2004 for eight portraits of Vanilla imperialis.
In 2004 Lizzie was honoured by the American Society of Botanical Artists, with the Diane Bouchier Award for Excellence. In 2005 a painting of Acer palmatum ‘Hessei’ was accepted for inclusion in the Highgrove Florilegium, The Prince of Wales Charitable Trust.
Lizzie trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and spent many years working in graphic design and advertising in Italy and New York before returning to Scotland.
She was a partner in Millhouse Design Consultants, Edinburgh and is currently employed as Design Director for McKinstrie Wilde, Edinburgh.
Lizzie has lectured at Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh Art Colleges and currently tutors Advanced Botanical Illustration at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.