She is originally from Indianapolis. In 1991, she earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts as a Painting major at the Rhode Island School of Design. After taking a brief hiatus to tour Europe’s art destinations by rail, backpack, and hostel, Elizabeth enrolled at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, earning a Masters of Fine Arts for Painting in 1994. She has lived in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Seattle, and Basalt, Colorado. Across this itinerant journey and throughout her life, the human form has always been her choice for the subject matter in her paintings.