Artist Elizabeth Horning

Elizabeth Horning is an artist who portrays the beauty of nature on canvas. The love of the landscape and all that it encompasses came early to Elizabeth Horning. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, artist Elizabeth Horning continued to live in the splendor of the Northeastern United States while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. While studying art, Elizabeth Horning was awarded scholarships for artists such as grants from the Carnegie Foundation, The Ford Foundation and a Royal Bailey Farnum Scholarship.

After her formal training as an artist, Elizabeth Horning dove right into becoming a fine artist. Never ceasing to examine art, Elizabeth Horning shapes young artists through her programs in the elementary schools of Franklin, New Hampshire. An artist directly influenced by her love of nature, Elizabeth Horning’s garden is bursting at the seams with blossoms and vines. This sounds like an example of Elizabeth Horning’s life as an artist imitating her art, for her canvases are thick and heavy with flowers.

The amazing photorealistic style artist Elizabeth Horning works in is technically very difficult. Somehow, though, Elizabeth Horning is able as an artist to keep her florals looking stunningly life-like while adding a touch of magical polish to them. In the painting Prickly Poppies, artist Elizabeth Horning captures a very realistic scene that in all actuality would occur quite rarely. Artist Elizabeth Horning painted all three soft pink poppies are in peak bloom and a butterfly has just landed for a drink of nectar. This skill Elizabeth Horning has as an artist is what creates the sense of wonder surrounding her oil paintings.

The quality of light artist Elizabeth Horning captures is ethereal creating otherworldly gardenscapes of her very realistic style. So important is light to Elizabeth Horning as an artist that she says, “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.” This attention to light is what gives artist Elizabeth Horning’s work her unique signature.