Major in Fine
Arts University of Oklahoma and Tulsa University.Portraiture studies with Jay O' Meilia. All other
mediums were studied in various courses. Mostly private
and self-taught. Avocation in painting since childhood.
Professionally since 1980. Now using, only, oil painting
regularly each day.
Art portfolio consists
of approximately seventy-five oils.Interpretations
of Impressionists and Post Impressionists, all Original. Plus
my own Originals. Selling in California, Arizona, Texas and
Oklahoma.
A sizable art collection of Native American Paintings
dating back thirty-five years. Three more paintings
in the 1930's were inherited. These paintings include
Rance Hood, Archie Blackowl, Bluejay and others; and One
Macioni. All in Elizabeth's favorite art collection. Please
inquire as to sales price.
I am still trying to master The Masters each day.
A More Personal Biography
Elizabeth’s dream was always a place like
Sedona.
She made her art name Eden as she felt she was
truly in Eden—Sedona, when she arrived. Living on ranches since
the age of three, and riding horses her entire life, made visual
observing a real factor to her painting. From the time she learned
to write she also sketched. After many grade school/junior/high
school teachers, she evolved doing all the mediums. Studying
at Philbrook Museum/with guest and resident art teachers (Jay
O’Meilia being one of many). Also viewing how Dr. Carl
W. Lindstrom painted the masters. All Tulsa, Oklahoma residents.
She has always been inspired by beauty. Tulsa being a little
Beverly Hills.
Marriage at 18 took away her surge; but other interests
paralleled her main art interest, rather mellowing, ideas
all the time. In 1980, her only two sons left the nest
leaving her with three canvases to start up her career,
once again. The last 22 years have been rather diligently
“mastering the masters.”
She had the opportunity to come to Sedona in
1990. The gallery trips were quite distracting and bewildering
to someone who was so informed from Tulsa with the Thomas Gilcrease
Museum and Philbrook Museum. Meeting Mr. Gilcrease personally
and knowing his daughter Des Cygne. The protocol in Sedona was
quite different and most difficult to understand. After going
to all the galleries, and being made one subservient
offer by one of the more renowned gallery owners---she just
continued to paint.
She has a Grand Canyon study---to do---and working with
other places to paint in Arizona. Whatever might “come
to mind”--as her spirit is free and virtually she is self-taught,
as she remembers reading about Georgia O’Keefe who said,
“It took me five years to unlearn what I was taught in
college.” She has never been instructed in oils. One New
Age person, on viewing her art said, “The masters are
channeling through your art.” That gave her quite a chuckle.
Mostly painting five hours a day for 19 years.
Now she is on the “time-clock” and has slowed a bit---as she
is an avid reader and gardener involving herself in the newspapers
in Sedona and playing with her beautiful dog “Doc” who has now
since passed away after, a long life of, 15 years. She still
has her beloved husband of 50 years. Her beautiful large home
is her studio, gorgeous oil paintings along with her art collection,
adorn the walls. Now her true stage will show, “exhibition”
by the World Wide Web---APPLAUSE ONLY now.
Please enjoy viewing her lovely website “ArtistImpressionist.com”.
