Eliza Southward practiced as an architect for ten years before deciding to take up a career as an artist and illustrator full-time in 2010, although she has consistently drawn and painted throughout her life. Her first illustration commission was a Spanish children’s book, when she was aged 13. Having grown up in Spain, Eliza spent a year in Italy and then moved to Scotland where she graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Architecture, later finishing her postgraduate architectural studies in London. Eliza’s speciality is silk screen printing, but she also works in mixed media, watercolour and acrylic. As a keen cycling fan, Eliza is known particularly for her cycling themed artwork, but she also produces work on a wide range of subjects such as cityscapes, dogs, sports and people.