Elizabeth Hefty

Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury is a London born writer and artist, and co-owner of Bloom Gallery in Valencia, Spain. Her work is a symbolic interpretation of the body. Issues such as grief, mental illness, violence, and inequality inform her use of the corporeal as a representation of the emotional being. As well as an MFA in Painting, Elizabeth holds a MA in Celtic Studies, and her interest in comparative mythology forms an important part of her research methodology. She believes that a painting holds multiple narratives, interpretable through different viewpoints and experience. Her figures are deliberately fragmented and abstracted, faceless and often with gender ambiguous.

Some of Elizabeth's experimental work can be seen here: and her ongoing project Arthropology here:

​Mother is a series of work exploring the complex psycho and socio erotic relationships that women have with their own breasts. Their role in how women construct their own narratives of being - as sexual symbols, as mothers - and how this changes through time as they age. Deliberately small, the artist invites the viewer to closely examine the work; introspectively, mirroring women's' own scrutiny of their bodies, and the real and perceived scrutiny that they come under from family, peers and society.

Martyr Complex 2019 acrylic on canvas 122 x 48 cm

Dissolution # 1 2016 oil on canvas 122 x 48 cm

Moon split in two 2012 93,5 x 74,5 cm oil on canvas

Dissolving into tears 2021 acrylic on wood panel 120 x 59

Fragment of self 1 2021 acrylic on canvas 57 x 45

Immortalized in Marble 2011 38.5 x 29 cm acrylic on board

Ophelia #1 2022 140 x 45 cm acrylic on wood

Ghosts in the Machine 2022 30 x 20 cm acrylic and collage on board