About Elizabeth

My first memory of making art is my mother encouraging me to colour inside the lines. I still don't.

At ten I announced that I was an artist. Then life got in the way, and I didn't start painting until August 25, 2020, three days after my 74th birthday.

I chose watercolours because they were inexpensive. I didn't know they're considered the most difficult medium.

When I learned it takes a hundred paintings to become even semi-proficient, I took the challenge: one painting a day, posted for everyone to see. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

When I reached a hundred, the people following along urged me to keep going. So I painted every day for a year. Somewhere in that year, boredom and curiosity carried my work from realism toward abstraction.

I come from Grand Forks, a small town in BC, and I've lived on Canada's west coast for the last sixty years. I've sold paintings and shown in galleries here.

But painting is Zen to me. I paint intuitively and emotionally, and nothing gratifies me more than when someone responds to a painting with feeling.

Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up.” I'm grateful I had the opportunity to do so.

Every painting on this site is a one-of-a-kind original, signed by Elizabeth, and ships with a signed certificate of authenticity.