Elizabeth Brownlow is a native Californian living in Western Massachusetts. She has been painting and drawing all of her life. She has a Visual Arts Degree from Holyoke Community College, where she was elected to Phi Theta Kappa, and in addition to receiving an Award of Excellence in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in Visual Art, won the Visual Art Faculty Prize. She then graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Art History. Since graduating, Elizabeth has studied with Dennis Sheehan, Don Demers, William Davis, and Joseph McGurl, but is basically self-taught.
She prefers to paint from life, either in outdoor settings or using live models, but she is not opposed to using her own photographs as aids to her memory. She also paints still lifes and works from plein air sketches in her studio in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Like her favorite masters, turn-of-the-twentieth-century American tonalists and their Barbizon predecessors, she uses a harmonious palette with subdued tones aiming to capture a scene and register the quality of an implicatory moment in time.
Selected Shows and Awards
Celebrating New England's Natural Beauty — Granby Land Trust Juried Art Show
Lost Acres Vineyard • 80 Lost Acres Road, North Granby, CT
October-November, 2017.
Won the Ray Betts Award for "Ice Fishers, Easthampton."
The Creative Muse, Juried Exhibition.
National Association of Women Artists.
Crayola Gallery at the Banana Factory Art Center, Bethlehem, PA.
Spring, 2016.
Juried Art Exhibition
Maple and Main Gallery, Chester CT.
2016, 2018.
6” squared Juried Exhibition and Sale.
Randy Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA.
Winter, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-2017, 2017-2018,
“Small Works Show”
ECA+ Gallery, Easthampton, MA
December 2014, 2015, 2016.
“Valley Impressions—Landscapes and Others”
One-Person Exhibition
Old Courthouse Art Gallery
Northampton, MA
1st–31st October 2014.
“New England Landscapes.”
Exhibition
The Gallery at Easthampton Municipal Building
14th April–18th June 2014
“Small Works Show”
ECA+ Gallery
Easthampton, MA
December 2013
“A Sense of Place”
Two-Person Exhibition
ECA+ Gallery
Easthampton, MA
7th–27th May 2013
“Paint the River” Juried Exhibition
Connecticut River Museum
Essex, Connecticut
(August 7 – October 10, 2009)
“Faces of Spring” Exhibition, Juried Show
Lyme Art Association
Lyme, Connecticut
(2009)
Annual Member Exhibition Juried Show
Juror: David Dunlop
Connecticut Plain Air Painters Society
Hartford Fine Art Gallery
(2008)
“Deck the Walls” Juried Show
Lyme Art Association, Lyme Connecticut
Annual Artists Holiday Exhibition
(2009)
“Wonders of Winter” Juried Show
Lyme Art Association, Lyme Connecticut
(2008)
