Elizabeth Bessant

Elizabeth Bessant is an award-winning artist who lives and works in London.
She started her career as a silkscreen printmaker in the 1980s’ quickly establishing her reputation with exhibitions at the Royal Academy, many UK galleries plus international
exhibitions in New York, LA and Paris.
Her journey has taken her through 28 years as a couture designer where fashion became her medium of expression dressing society women, couture brides and celebrities. Now she focuses on her artwork. Elizabeth appeared in Sky Arts ‘Landscape Artist of the Year’ in 2022.
In her early career, she specialised in printmaking and exhibitions included: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1982, 1983, 1985; New York Art Expo 1987, 1988, 1989;
California Art Expo 1987, 1988, 1989; NEC Birmingham 1988; Atlantis Paper Awards Exhibition 1984 (won best print in show). By 1987 she was already listed in Who’s Who
in International Art.
Since returning to her art practice many accolades have followed, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists in 2018.
In 2024 Elizabeth had a solo exhibition called
“Refashioned” at Ad Lib Gallery, Wimbledon, one of the artworks “Lady or Tramp” has been selected for the Women in Art Fair at the Mall Galleries. A feature thr...

Alfred Sutton Girls' School (Reading) 1969 to 1974
Newport College of Art (South Wales) 1979 to 1982 BA (honours) degree in
Graphic Design specialising in Printmaking
Wimbledon School of Art (London) 1982 to 1984 Post Graduate Diploma in
Printmaking

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1982, 1983, 1985
Royal West of England Academy 1982, 1983
Printmakers Society, Mall Galleries 1983
The Art Centre, Chepstow 1984 one woman show
Station Art Galleries, Chepstow, 1984 one women show
Regatta Gallery, Richmond, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
Old Bell Galleries, Chepstow one women show 1985
New York Art Expo 1987, 1988, 1989
California Art Expo 1987, 1988, 1989
Tradition and Innovation, Rank Xerox and Yorkshire Contemporary Art 1986
Municipal Gallery and Museum, Newport South Wales 1982
NEC Birmingham 1988
Atlantis Paper Awards Exhibition, London 1984 (won best print in show)
Tredegar House, Newport 1982
Regatta Gallery, Esher 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
Shortlisted Whitechapel Galleries Open Exhibition 2022
TV program Sky Landscape Artist of the Year 2022
Victoria Foundation 2021, 2022, 2023
Ad Lib Gallery, London Solo Exhibition 2024
Women in Art Fair, Mall Galleries 2024