Elizabeth works internationally and nationally as a Visual artist, Curator, Administrator and Visual Arts Educator. Elizabeth has participated in Visual Arts international residencies where she has developed collaborations with artists of dance, poetry, music, theatre, creative writing, scientists and cuisine. She has exhibited her work internationally and within Canada, highlighted by a show at the Canadian Embassy in Dublin Ireland and shows in Marnay sur Seine France. She curated and produced five multi-disciplinary shows for Nuit Blanche in Toronto at Spadina Museum, combining Visual Arts, installation art , theatre, music, medicine, science and video .
Elizabeth has participated in eighteen international residencies in a retreat format, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, The Cill Rialaig Project, Ireland, The Irish College In Paris, The Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont USA, Fundascione Valparaiso, Spain, La Maison Verte du Jardin Botanique, in Marnay sur Seine France, and the Banff Centre
Beginning with the 2003 performance year, in Toronto Elizabeth has been a guest visual artist of several dance and opera companies nationally and internationally. These sketches have been developed into larger oil paintings in the studio which are reflective of the mediums of dance and opera.
This past summer in Ireland at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, she developed work that reflects the “thin space”, a term meaning a space on earth where the distance between the world as we know it and the supernatural world are poised to merge. Emotions and creativity are heightened. Elizabeth painted Fairy circles in an abstract manner , recalling the magic of the garden , the woods, and the passion of the art of creative thinking and painting.
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