Born an easterner, she raised her family
in the American Southwest. She attended the University of Southern Maine, Boston
University, Scottsdale Community College, Mesa Community College and Arizona
State University, where she worked on a double Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio
art and creative writing. She recently earned a Bachelors of Art in Creative
Writing from Regents' University of the State of New York in Albany, NY.
In Arizona, she administrated the Mesa Art League as president; worked with the
Scottsdale Artists League, and was administrator for several juried shows in
Arizona. She entered and was accepted into many juried shows, receiving several
firsts, seconds, and one third prize. She studied under several well-known
Arizona art teachers, including Jim Pile, Burdell Moody and Jim Garrison.
Elizabeth moved to Canada in 1984, and taught art in a private boarding high
school. She has done workshops in pastels and watercolors. As well, she studied
with Henry Vyfvinkel at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Ontario.
Mostly, Elizabeth works in oils and pastels, with occasional forays into
watercolor.
Elizabeth's work hangs in collections in Virginia, Ontario, British Columbia,
Saskatchewan, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, England, Germany and Japan. Several
Arizona corporations have purchased and display her artwork in their buildings.
Elizabeth has had several one-person shows including one at Tyndale College in
Toronto, at the Brockville Arts Centre, a Sacred Art show at Gallery 2131 and a
three-person show at the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto. She has
showed at Art Credo and at St. Paul's University in Ottawa and in the annual
juried shows at the Cornwall Regional Art Show and in the Regional Art Show at
the university in Potsdam, NY., which encompasses northern New York and Eastern
Ontario. For several years, her work was hung in the Rideau Valley Art Festival
at Westport, ON. At present, her paintings are at Gallery 2131; Scottsdale and
Cornville, Arizona, and in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
Her hope is that her art will bring joy and meaning to those who all who see and
purchase it.
