Art as a path, a language and a personal frontier, has always been an important part of Elizabeth Pollie’s life. She grew up visiting museums and studying art and drawing alongside her father. Elizabeth earned her BFA from The College for Creative Studies in Detroit and later taught there. In the 1980s, Elizabeth’s interests led her to editorial illustration, a field where many greatly imaginative artists honed their conceptual and representational skills. Her illustrations were nationally published and awarded. As illustration began to fade from magazines and book jackets, Elizabeth Pollie’s focus shifted to representational painting. “The intrigue and intimacy found in observing the surrounding world provides me with ceaseless inspiration. There is a great sense of freedom as well as a spirit of discovery that is derived through the act of painting.” Elizabeth’s focus is on finding and teasing out a sense of poetry, mood and depth in her work. “I want to believe that what binds us as a species is an inward call to experience the sublime even in the most ordinary of things. Art is an outward expression of that desire.”Pollie’s work has received strong reception in the art world, collecting numerous awards as well as national media coverage. She is a Master Signature Member of American Women Artists and a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America. She lives and works in the waterside town of Harbor Springs, Michigan.