Elizabeth Pollie received her B.F.A. from The College For Creative Studies, where she later taught. For years she worked as a freelance illustrator and has had her work published nationally. Captivated by the landscape, her studies of art have taken her to Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, Mexico and across America where she has worked with many renowned painters. Today she resides primarily in the waterside town of Harbor Springs, Michigan where she paints full time.

A successful representational painting transcends technique and gimmickry, eliciting from the viewer a sense of connection with the truer nature of the subject. In the best of these works we are taken, almost unwittingly, into the heart of the painting. Here we feel, down to the bone, the more intrinsic qualities of a scene...be they lovely or disturbing, either way we are mesmerized. If we are very lucky our own hearts are broken open.

I gladly offer my most sincere thanks to the myriad of those who have inspired me in my craft as well as my spirit.