Liz Haywood-Sullivan

Liz Haywood-Sullivan is a representational artist specializing in pastel landscapes. Her paintings are defined by strong contrast values and graphic compositions and feature the interplay between man and the environment, with buildings, roads, and signs often working their way into her imagery. After graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1978 she worked as an industrial designer, exhibit designer, and professional illustrator and spent 11 years operating Haywood+Sullivan, Inc., a graphic design business, with her husband.

Since 1996 she has worked as a professional pastel artist, art educator, and community arts organizer. The January 2004 issue of the Artist's Magazine named her as one of 20 contemporary artists "On the Rise" and she will be featured in the May 2007 issue of American Artist Magazine.

She is a vice president for the North River Arts Society, and holds Signature Memberships in the Pastel Society of America, the Connecticut Pastel Society, and the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. Her paintings have been juried into the following Annual National Shows: Pastel Society of America, Academic Artists Association (Honor Award 2006), Catherine Lorillard Wolf, and The Allied Artists of America (Pastel Society of America Award 2004). In 2005 she was awarded the Pastel Society of America Award at the "Pastels Only" show by the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. Her work has been seen at the Butler Institute of American Art in 2006 and 2003. Her award-winning paintings are included in private and corporate collections nationwide.

In Boston her work can be seen at the Vose Galleries and in Taos NM at Act One Gallery.

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