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- Elizabeth Dax
of Niermann Weeks
Elizabeth Dax is the Senior Design Coordinator for
Niermann Weeks, the Annapolis firm recognized in the trade
for its high-end customized furniture, lighting, textiles
and accessories. A specialist in the restoration of 18th and
19th century paintings, Ms. Dax has painted her violin in
the Italian neoclassical style, using a pale, antiqued
background, with decorative motifs done in more than 20
different colors and multiple glazes to achieve an
appearance of a painting mellowed with age.
Born in Hampshire, England and raised between London
and Paris, Elizabeth Dax received a degree in art from Bath
Academy in England. Her fine arts education and extensive
international travels have exposed her to a wide range of
designs and painting styles. Always fascinated with 18th and
19th century works, Elizabeth Dax has become an authority on
the composition of paints and glazes of that era and on what
the passage of time has done to these old masterpieces. She
frequently holds seminars for the artisans at Niermann Weeks
on painting techniques of that period, observing that
"artisans are involved in intricate handwork and their
skills improve with knowledge."
In 1989 she left her Notting Hill studio in London to
move to Annapolis and by 1990 she had begun working for
Niermann Weeks' paint studio, maintaining a studio at home
as well. Her semi-abstract paintings have been exhibited on
both sides of the Atlantic. Last year one of her paintings
was reproduced in House Beautiful, leading to several
private commissions.
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