Elizabeth Willmott
(1928–)
Elizabeth Willmott
1928–
Elizabeth Willmott (1928– ) is an artist, photographer, and writer. She is known for her written and visual contributions to The Structurist, an international art journal, and her painted relief artworks. Her art practice is rooted in Structurist theory and close observation of the natural world.
Structurism is a North American offshoot of Constructivism. Within this framework, Willmott is interested in creating artworks that are socially and politically engaged with the fundamental needs of our time. She achieves this by using her practice to merge nature and technology. Her painted relief works draw on their three-dimensionality to relate the artwork to the structures and processes of creation in the natural world. Overall, her work seeks to represent the structure and creativity of nature.
Willmott is a graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio. She also took courses in art and psychology at the Universities of Michigan and Saskatchewan. She spent much of her life living in Toronto, Ontario, where her husband, Donald Willmott, taught East Asian Studies at York University’s Glendon Campus. The couple now lives in Owen Sound, Ontario. Her work can be found in collections such as the University of Saskatchewan Art Collection, Saskatoon, and the Tom Thompson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, among others.