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Exhibitions and Projects You will find Elizabeth's work at her Bryson City studio, and in the Asheville NC area at The Design Gallery in Burnsville.
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Visit our studio/gallery on Main St. in the Old Clampitt Hardware building |
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Contributor to multi-media component of a live concert presentation of The Blue & Green Project - new jazz/blues music inspired by Appalachian Mountain life from saxophonist Jack Wilkins. Mountain Watercolors, a three-movement composition, is based on elements found in Elizabeth's paintings. The CD is available for 
Paintings and illustrations for High Vistas: An Anthology of Nature and Descriptive Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Volume II, 1900 - 2009. Biographical essays introducing the writings of celebrated naturalists like Roger Tory Peterson and Edward Abbey. Compiled by George Ellison. 
Cover painting, Camping and Woodcraft, 2011 new edition, soft cover. Horace Kephart's classic has withstood the test of time as the definitive guide to hiking, camping, camp cooking and outdoor survival. Introduction by 
Cover painting "When Times Were Simpler" for Americana Rural by Nancy Dillingham. Dillingham writes timelessly about rural life in the heartland during the 1930s and 40s. Rob Neufeld of the Asheville Citizen-Times called the book "a series of tableaux ...documenting the experience of mountain woman." Available from 
Cover painting "Morning Mist Over Deep Creek" for Smoky Mountain Magic, Horace Kephart's "lost" novel in print for the first time. Kephart is well known for his non-fictional works, Our Southern Highlanders, Camping and Woodcraft, and The Cherokees of the Smoky Mountains. Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association. 
Watercolors and illustrations for the large-format book Blue Ridge Nature Journal: Reflections on the Appalachian Mountains in Essays and Art. Essays on the natural history by George Ellison, illustrated by Elizabeth. 
Paintings for Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina. Essays of mountain life and lore by George Ellison. The History Press. 
Paintings and illustrations for High Vistas: An Anthology of Nature and Descriptive Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Volume I, 1674 - 1900. Biographical essays introducing the writings of celebrated naturalists like John Muir and William Bartram. Compiled by George Ellison. 
Dust-wrapper
painting and ink washes for, Ebbing & Flowing Springs by Jeff Daniel Marion
(Celtic Cat Printing, Knoxville TN), a 2003 Benjamin
Franklin Award finalist. 
Cover artist for
Niche Gardens of Chapel Hill, NC, an award-winning
nursery specializing in the propagation of native plants.
Cover
illustration for Poetry in Prayer. 
Illustrator
for The Chinese Poet Awakens by Jeff Daniel Marion. 
Illustrator for To Find a Birdsong by Billy C. Clark.