Liz Sofield has recently returned home to New Zealand after spending twenty years living in Australia and has set up her studio along the beautiful coast of Whangarei Heads.

Trained in both interior and textile design, Liz established her artistic practice whilst living in a remote, mining town in Western Australia, for a short period of time in 2014. Liz found that quality art supplies were not readily available, so she turned to her textile making skills to create delicate artworks using simply paper and thread.

Over the last few years Liz has been creating earth pigments from Brisbane and Whangarei coastal rocks, also natural dyed cotton thread, which she incorporates into her textile paper art.

Liz’s most recent commissions include the refurbished Waldorf Astoria in New York, Orlando Marriott and Dallas Grand Hyatt. She runs online workshops through Artisan Queensland and is a member of the international Paper Artist Collective and IAPMA.