Lizzie grew up in Bristol. She suffered physical ill-health for most of her life and died aged 36 in 2025. Lizzie believed strongly in the health benefits of the arts, especially in creating a warm therapeutic environment, through nursing and voluntary work in the BRI and with adopted children, and her personal experience of medical care. Many of her works were part of a journal made during a lengthy hospital stay, their content reflecting a means of looking out from profoundly restricted circumstances.

Lizzie loved the natural world, not least trees, butterflies and beautiful skies. She loved making multi-coloured bouquets from her garden flowers. She had 25 pet rats, one would visit her occasionally in hospital. They were replaced by 4 dearly loved cats. She cared for elephant hawk moth pupae over the winter months, then delighted in seeing them fly free. Lizzie's life revolved around music and she was a talented violinist. She was influenced greatly by the poetry of the 13th century Sufi mystic Rumi.