Elizabeth White
Pastel
Elizabeth White – Pastel
Elizabeth White grew up in Northern Illinois and lived on the East Coast for twenty years before moving to Ojai in 1993. She received a degree in Studio Art from Stanford University where she studied with Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell. She also studied at the Art Institute in Chicago. She has been a member of the Ojai Studio Artists since 2006.
White works primarily with pastels, focusing on the interplay among landscape, light, and water. She considers herself to be a landscape artist, but not a typical landscape artist. While many such artists like to stand back to get the grand picture, she likes to zoom in, to create what she thinks of as a landscape portrait. Her recent focus on succulents has been motivated by the seemingly unending variety of form and colors to be found within them. After growing up in the midwest and living in the east where succulents are rarely found, she is dazzled by their array. To her, they are the quintessential California plant.
