Elizabeth grew up in Kansas where she began painting at the age of 13. After high school, she moved to San Francisco to attend the Academy of Art University. She received a BFA in Drawing and Painting in 1995. Elizabeth backpacked Europe for several months thereafter and ultimately landed a job as a painter for a mural studio in San Francisco. The studio specialized in large-scale murals for casinos and hotels, primarily in Las Vegas.
With two years of work experience, Elizabeth ventured off to New York to pursue her free-lance career. She continued doing commissioned murals and paintings for homes and restaurants. Less than a year went by in New York, when a mural commission in Cairo, Egypt lured her overseas. The presumed three month duration for the commission turned into eighteen months of sojourned living, working and traveling in Egypt.
After a year and a half, Elizabeth returned to the U.S. and decided to move back to California, but this time to San Diego, where she has resided since October of 2000. Since 2002 she has been teaching art at several local art schools, including the San Diego Museum of Art Museum School, UCSD Extension and The Athenaeum Art School. She exhibits her work with Gallery 33 East in Long Beach, CA., The Just Looking Gallery in San Luis Obispo and Blue Gallery of Kansas City, MO.