“I find great joy in creating work that brings together the disparate and often discarded things of this world, and creating a new and cohesive whole.”

“I create very detailed hand-drawn pen & ink illustrations featuring the prominent buildings & landmarks from my city, as well as many of America’s treasured landmarks.”

Artist Elizabeth Fitzhugh de-constructs old dolls, junk and memorabilia and reconstructs them into assemblages. She talks about her inspiration and

“Painting is a language that allows me to speak in ways that are not possible with words.”

“Depending on the emotion I want to create, I make color, saturation, focus and textural choices, sometimes adding additional story elements in order to create a heightened sense of drama or a dreamlike quality.”

“Painting is an integral part of my life. It is an expression of my joy in everything I see.”

“My photography career was very rewarding, but there was always a small fire inside that was not being fed. So after thirteen years, I retired my camera for profit and picked up a paint brush. This time for real. It felt like home.”