Elizabeth Dimitroff at Coughton Court

HeritageXplore x The Dot Project

 Artist-in-Residence Programme |  Summer–Autumn 2026

Residency : 7th-27th September

In September, Elizabeth Dimitroff will undertake a residency at Coughton Court, producing a new body of work in response to the site’s layered histories, architecture, and surrounding landscape.

Dimitroff’s paintings unfold in a quiet state of suspension. Forms emerge slowly, only to dissolve or shift, leaving behind impressions that feel more sensed than clearly defined. Her use of oil paint is central to this process: its slow drying allows each layer to be revisited, adjusted, or partially erased, echoing the fluid and often unreliable nature of memory. Through this continual reworking, the surface accumulates a sense of pause and return. What remains is not a fixed image, but a lingering atmosphere, where ambiguity becomes a kind of resolution.

Coughton Court offers a natural counterpart to this sensibility. Shaped by centuries of continuous inhabitation, its interiors carry a palpable sense of lived time – histories embedded in panelled walls, portraits, and quiet architectural details. The presence of the past is neither fixed nor distant, but layered, partial, and felt.