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Elizabeth Horning was born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and graduated with a BFA in
Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design
in 1965. As an undergraduate, she received a
Royal Bailey Farnum Scholarship and grants from
both the Ford and Carnegie Foundations. Since
graduation she has never ceased to study art,
and over the years she has attained superb
technical proficiency in her craft.
Ms. Horning began her career in art as a
teacher, setting up and implementing art
programs in the elementary schools of Franklin,
New Hampshire, until 1973 when she moved to
the part of the American Southwest where she
lives and paints to this day. She has been able
to use her artistic talent in numerous
interconnected ways subsequent to her move:
as an illustrator, as a commercial artist, as an
art director of a commercial enterprise, as a
designer, and of course as a creator of fine art.
In speaking about her work, Ms. Horning says,
"Although I have worked in a wide variety of
media throughout my career, I keep coming
back to oils. I think oil on canvas allows for more
spontaneity than practically any other medium.
It is my favorite medium for composing pictures
and working out new ideas, which, once
resolved, I will reinterpret on paper. Much like
watercolor, oil paint on paper tends to have a
more transparent quality; it, like watercolor, can
easily be destroyed by overworking. So,
foremost in my mind when I am working on
paper is the preservation of the light which is
vital to the life of the painting and which must
come from the paper itself."
If you love the splendor of flowers and the
glories of the pageant of life, you will cherish the
paintings of Elizabeth Horning, for she possess a
rare ability to communicate the joy she receives
from flowers - and from all other living things -
flawlessly, with paint on canvas and paper.
But like all true artists, she does not merely copy
the beauty of nature, she magnifies it.
Ms. Horning has been active in artists' leagues
during her entire career, and her works can be
found in galleries from Vancouver to San Diego
and from Honolulu to New York, as well as in
many corporate and private collections.
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