Born and raised in the Netherlands, Elizabeth Meyer married a Canadian and immigrated to Ontario in 1979 at the age of nineteen. She has since lived in various parts of Canada and has travelled extensively in both Canada and the United States.

Elizabeth has always had a passion for art. In the early 1990s, desiring to develop her technique, she made a great effort to attend evening art classes; however, at the time, raising 6 children (in addition to milking 60 cows twice a day!) made it difficult to find time for her artwork.

Having fallen in love with Nova Scotia while residing here for six years in the 1980s, Elizabeth and her husband returned in 2017 for their retirement years. Since then, she has spent many happy hours painting in her Bear River studio overlooking the majestic tidal river.

Elizabeth works with watercolor, oil paints and acrylics and has most recently been working with alcohol inks on Yupo paper. She is attracted to the inks because of their vibrant colors; and enjoys the challenge of

executing fine detail in a medium that tends to have a mind of its own. Elizabeth is inspired by what she sees around her in nature. Her focus lies in depicting the beauty she sees in creation and in capturing the life of her subjects.