Elizabeth Taggart was born in Donaghadee, Co. Down, in 1943. She is the only daughter in a family of three. She was trained under John Luke and Romeo Toogood in Belfast’s College of Art, and whilst her figures echo Luke, her paintings are filled with symbolic images. She works slowly, reworking her paintings, never satisfied with the finished product.
Taggart's paintings are sometimes ‘self-portraits’. They consist of masked pierrots depicting her own suspicious nature, distrusting of
the world we all live in, as she would prefer to remain in her own world: a house by the sea, cushioned from the outside world. Her house is full of quirky furniture, close to nature and animals and away from human life.
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