Lizzie Riches was born and brought up in London But has spent most of her adult life in East Anglia, beginning in the Waveney Valley and lately by the sea in Cromer. She joined London's Portal Gallery in 1975 and has exhibited with them since. Lizzie has also had solo exhibitions in London, Paris and Chicago and participated in numerous mixed shows including, recently one in New York. She is represented in the private collections of Ringo Star, Sir Roy Strong, Nicholas Rothschild, Jackie Collins and Quentin Letts and in the corporate collections of Prudential and Life, Accenture, P & O, and The Sainsbury Collection. She was commissioned for London's Art in the Underground series and has an entry in the Dictionary of 20th Century British Artists and in Who's Who in the Arts.