She is a graduate of Radford University in Radford Virginia with a BS in Art Education and an MFA in Two Dimensional Media and has been teaching art in Fairfax County Public Schools since 1996. Elaine exhibits her work often in the northern Virginia and DC area. Many of her pieces hang in public and private collections in the United States and internationally. Her work begins with a realistic image. Through the creative process, it often changes many times and the color combinations and overlapping lines and spaces direct the final piece. Her pieces develop through the process of mark making.