Elizabeth Floyd began her career as an architect but her true passion was to be an artist. In 2009 Elizabeth was successful in achieving her goal and transitioned to art full time. Floyd’s studies have explored the three main genres of art: still life, figurative, and landscape. Elizabeth loves painting the flowers she grows in her own garden and works with oils in a colorist manner utilizing a full-color palette. She applies layers of color tints wet-in-wet in order to build up form, value, and color. Her work is highly rendered, but she allows brushwork to exhibit the textural effects that paint application can achieve. When focusing on still life, her studio practice is to work from life in only natural light. When she left architecture in 2009 she established a self-directed study plan to parlay the strong observational and sketching skills from being an architect towards mastering representational oil painting. She gained proficiency by attending local arts classes and workshops, and by copying masterpieces at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Floyd has received recognition in local and international art exhibitions and competitions. Her work has been published in numerous publications.