Lizzie Pannell grew up in Hampshire, UK and spent much of her childhood in the Channel Islands, where her earliest creative influences were shaped by the colour, movement and changing moods of sea and sky, themes that featured prominently in her early work.

After graduating from a Foundation Fine Art Degree, Pannell went on to pursue a BA (Hons) degree in Media and Cultural Studies in London. Following university, she embarked on what became a fifteen-year career in advertising, continuing to paint alongside her professional life.

In 2021 she left the media industry to become a full-time artist. Since then, Pannell has established a consistent exhibition record, showing and selling her work across New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. Her paintings have also been exhibited at New Zealand’s Parliament Buildings, The Beehive.

Best known for her large, vibrant floral works, Pannell’s wider practice encompasses landscape, abstract and symbolic still-life. She also creates bespoke Doll’s House artworks transforming real homes into miniature keepsake paintings that preserve family heritage and memory across generations.

Pannell continues to explore a range of painterly styles, including symbolic still life studies in her “Vessels of Holding” series, and most recently focusing on impressionistic, colour-rich landscapes that incorporate familiar, man-made domestic objects, an and evolving dialogue between place, memory and home.