Elizabeth Brandon
ELIZABETH BRANDON is an accomplished painter in the Poetic Realist tradition. She is dedicated to practicing the Old Master principles of capturing light and atmosphere on her canvases. Elizabeth reveals a natural beauty in her culinary subjects and a true poetic interpretation of her relationship to her subjects.
After graduation with a BFA from the University of Georgia, Elizabeth moved from her native Nashville, TN, to New York City to study drawing and oil painting at the Art Students League of New York. Under the tutelage of renowned painter, Frank Mason, she studied the concepts and techniques of the Dutch Masters and Rubens and even those of the Hudson River Painters after five years of intense learning. While living in New York as an art student, Elizabeth worked in the League office under the mentorship of Rosina Florio, director, with whom she formed a lifelong friendship until Florio's death.
Since returning to Nashville twenty-six years ago, she has shown her work nationally and she has won numerous awards for her paintings. She was the cover artist for the popular Cook's Illustrated magazine for seven years, and her paintings reside in private collections throughout the US and abroad.
Elizabeth now lives with her artist husband, Joseph H. Sulkowski, and together they work in their studio in the country.
www.elizabethbrandon.com
After graduation with a BFA from the University of Georgia, Elizabeth moved from her native Nashville, TN, to New York City to study drawing and oil painting at the Art Students League of New York. Under the tutelage of renowned painter, Frank Mason, she studied the concepts and techniques of the Dutch Masters and Rubens and even those of the Hudson River Painters after five years of intense learning. While living in New York as an art student, Elizabeth worked in the League office under the mentorship of Rosina Florio, director, with whom she formed a lifelong friendship until Florio's death.
Since returning to Nashville twenty-six years ago, she has shown her work nationally and she has won numerous awards for her paintings. She was the cover artist for the popular Cook's Illustrated magazine for seven years, and her paintings reside in private collections throughout the US and abroad.
Elizabeth now lives with her artist husband, Joseph H. Sulkowski, and together they work in their studio in the country.
www.elizabethbrandon.com
