Elizabeth Elkin is a renowned professional artist with an international reputation. Over the span of forty years, she utilizes her advanced painting skills to create superior quality oil and acrylic paintings. The true innovation of her work lies in the power of her vibrant colors, her museum quality works of expressionist art.
Elizabeth has more than 130 group exhibitions since 1992 in Canada, with more than 17 solo exhibitions in Ontario and Quebec.
She is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and the Ontario Society of Artists.
Elizabeth’s paintings can be found in the collections of Government of Ontario Art Collection, and in many private and corporate collections across Canada, United States, Asia, and Europe.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

After four decades of interpreting the world through the structured lenses of Expressionism and Cubism, my current work explores the threshold where architecture and landscape dissolve into pure sensory experience. This evolution represents a 'stripping away' of the literal to reveal the energetic vibration of a place.
My process is deeply tactile. Using a palette knife to build high-relief impasto surfaces, I treat the canvas as an architectural site, layering oil and acrylic to create a physical history on the surface. While my earlier cityscapes focused on the rhythmic geometry of rooftops and streets, these new abstract works distill those rhythms into a language of color-fields and gestural marks. Influenced by the heritage of Canadian abstraction and the light of my European travels, these pieces seek to capture the 'after-image'—the emotional resonance that remains in the mind after the physical sight has faded.