Liz Gunning

Born in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, Liz always felt a deep connection to the rolling hills of Shropshire. That pull eventually led her to Ironbridge in 2004 — a move she and her husband, Dave, had envisioned since the late 1960s, when they first decided that Ironbridge was where they hoped to build their life together. 

Liz spent 28 years as an art teacher, inspired daily by the creativity and imagination of the children she taught. She developed her own unique child‑centred art curriculum and became one of the first primary art teachers appointed by Wolverhampton Authority. She firmly believes that creativity is something we must nurture in order to reach our inner selves, and teaching children the fundamentals of drawing and painting laid the foundations for her own artistic development.