Growing up in a family of artists, Elizabeth was encouraged to draw and paint from an early age exploring and experimenting in various mediums along the way. While still in high school, she was invited to attend art classes on a scholarship to Chouinard Fine Art School in Los Angeles. She then traveled abroad to study at Sir John Cass College of Art and Heatherley School of Art in London. Heatherley was a small traditional art guild her mother had attended.

Returning to the States, she continued her studies at the Arts Students League in New York City, and attended various classes and workshops over the years with such renowned artists as Quang Ho, Ron Hicks, Kim English, Michael Lynch, and Helen Van Wyk to name a few.

Elizabeth has been the owner and operator of her own art school in Austin Texas for the past twenty years and has developed a teaching style that has helped hundreds of people to learn to draw and paint beautifully. Much can be learned from going back in history and putting back into art education what has been left out over the last century. Elizabeth explains it this way, "There is most definitely a technical side to making art that when learned, can free the artist within. Being moved by the beauty of what you find before you is not enough. There is a language that must be learned that can then gives us the means through which to communicate and express our Self. Paradoxically, once we have the skill level we need, then there can be a "leap into the unknown" that allows what can never be planned or known to emerge. We 'let go' of trying to 'do' art, and what emerges is fresh and natural and authentic. Art can be a place where we can simply and truly and courageously "show up" and be ourselves. Art is the result of mastering the skills and then getting the head out of the way, and letting the heart take over."

For the past several years, Elizabeth and some of her students have been traveling to France to paint outdoors together. "There is no substitute for painting directly from life like this. When we are in direct relationship with Nature, responding to real light and real colors in the "present" we are not only experiencing and witnessing Nature, but also participating in it all" The resultant work has attracted the attention of collectors across the nation.
Her time now is divided between teaching and painting. Even though Elizabeth no longer teaches weekly classes, you can still study with Elizabeth by signing up for one or more "Art Study Days" that she schedules from time to time. "The format is all day with lunch included" Elizabeth explains. "I teach for 10 consecutive days, and students sign up for one or more of those ten days. Classes are kept very small. All are welcome at any level as each person is working individually with me."