About the Artist
Elizabeth Wilson’s work has been exhibited at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The National Academy of Design in New York and the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio. Since graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, her paintings have been exhibited and collected nationwide and are included in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States and England. Public collections include the DuPont de Nemours Company in Delaware, McGraw Hill Publishing Company in New York and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2009, a Retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Lawrence Gallery at Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA. The show entitled: ELIZABETH WILSON, A Retrospective: Paintings & Drawings 1982 – 2009. For over 15 years, Elizabeth has taught drawing and design at several area universities; her most current teaching was at Philadelphia University, teaching design and drawing.
While at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) she studied with Ben Kamihira, Roswell Weidner, Arthur DeCosta, Sidney Goodman, Bruce Samuelson, and Jimmy Lueders among others.
Elizabeth’s work has always been a direct response to her environment. Her intention is to create a strong sense of time, place and visual harmony. Her most recent paintings are part of an ongoing series of small paintings, which began when she first visited the northern regions of England in the mid 1990′s. Elizabeth’s first experience in the UK was in the mid 1970′s and had an enormous impact on her and her future work. She has returned often to the UK, painting in Northumberland, in and around London, the Cotswold’s, Great Malvern, the Lake District, Wales and from the nearby regions of Scotland, particularly outside Glasgow. She is also working on series landscape paintings inspired from a recent trip to Ireland. Wilson’s work also includes paintings from California, Long Island (New York), Martha’s Vineyard, Maine and Philadelphia, where she currently lives and works. Primarily a painter of landscape, Miss Wilson is also known for her figurative work.
Her work has been described as “small gems”, “luminous” and “having a quiet energy”. To view examples of these paintings, click on the Painting Menu above.