Biography

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Elizabeth (b. 1989, Lexington, Kentucky) is an artist in Richmond, Virginia. She holds an BA in Studio Art and Art History from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, NY. Her artwork varies from small watercolors to large mixed media works on canvas, largely inspired by nature and her life in raising two small children.

 

 

Artist Statement

 

I paint to say “I was here.”

 

That is, I paint to simply mark my presence across a surface. To leave my mark. Mostly, the marks I choose come in the form of whatever brings me joy. Those joys tend to come from the natural world and from my children.

 

Through painting the birds I see, the flowers I grow, or by making an abstract mess of the colors I love, I capture parts of myself and my joys amidst the chaos of the ever-changing seasons of motherhood.