Liza Campbell's career in art has had three distinct phases.

For seven years she concentrated on sgraffitto on soapstone and showed in All Saints Gallery, St John's Hall, Babington House; culminating in a sell-out solo show at The Sladmore Gallery, Bruton Place W1.

 The first radical shift in her choice of working medium was from stonework to collage.  Campbell spent seven years making distinctive works of mysterious beauty & tonal harmony, exhibiting in London, Scotland and France.

It was in a mixed show in 2008 that she introduced her latest departure; an ongoing series of works she calls The Dark Boxes. Though completely different in look and style, theses dioramas have emerged directly from her collages. Each box contains small figures and tells a story in a single line of text.

As both a writer & artist (she wrote the highly-praised Title Deeds, published by Doubleday 2006), Liza Campbell's artwork has always been informed by the written word and in The Dark Boxes, the text has come to share equal importance with the imagery; creating small worlds that are dark, funny & wistful. 

These dioramas have a gathering cult of collectors. One of them, Sarah Lutyens of Lutyens Rubenstein says, ''Like Edward Gorey, Liza creates a world which is both deeply unsettling and completely irresistible.  Her Dark Boxes are pretty sinister - indeed downright macabre at times - but also surprisingly poetic and beautiful, so that you are drawn back to them again and again.'

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