Elizabeth Pruitt

Pretty in Pink Aug. 8	Copper Pitcher with Roses and Delftware	Rose Abundance
Chinese Vessel with Grapes and Oranges	Pink Roses in Racu	Peonies in Sugar Bowl with Rug
All Dressed Up	The Gathering	Peonies in Silver Vase
Peonies in Glass Vase	Compliments	Pink Roses in Glass Vase with Rug
Hydrangeas and Silver	Little Blue Vase with Blossoms	Miniature Roses in Delftware

See photos from her painting demonstration

Elizabeth was raised in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. As a child, her Grandmothers would help her identify various wild flowers at their cabin above Oakley, Utah. This is where her love of flowers began. "I still have the book where I pressed and catagorized wild flowers that my paternal Grandmother helped me with." She began painting in her early 20's but soon children became her priority and her love of painting was an occasional hobby. As the children grew, so did her desire to expand on her art. Life has taken her to Olathe, Kansas with her three children, Brittney, Justin, and Brooke. She now enjoys the freedom to devote full time to her art. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States and in the Ella Dunnegan Museum in Bolivar, MO. She has studied with master Decorative Artist, Mary Jo Leisure, Fine artists: Jeff Legg, Robert Daley,Tom Browning, Xiang Zhang, Greg Kruetz, Robert Johnson, Sherry Mcgraw, David Leffel, and Dan Gerhartz.

Publications & Industry Associations: Published by Gretchen Cagle Publications and by F& W Publications under the name of Elizabeth Hayes including "Painting Luscious Fruit" and "Painting Trees, Leaves and Foliage" She is a member of "Oil Painters of America" Associate Member. American Women Artist Member, Kansas City Art League Member, Royal Ambassador for Royal Brush Company: Published Paintings for Advertisements.

Awards and Honors

2008 Juror's Top 50 Award, Salon International Show
2008 Tuffy Berg Award, C. M. Russell Benefit Auction
2007 "Best Still Life" at the National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society annual exhibit
2007 Finalist for month of Feb in Raymar Art contest for "First years Crop"
2007 Finalist for January in Raymar Art contest for "The Black Cowboy"
2006 "Best Still Life" at the National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society annual exhibit
2006 Finalist (2 paintings) for the month of February in the Raymar Plein Air (judged by Gregg Kreutz) "Bernardo" & "Turkish Pitcher with Yellow Roses"

Shows and Exhibitions

2008 Accepted into the Salon International
2008 Accepted into the 17th Annual Oil Painters of America National Exhibit
2007 Accepted into the National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society "Best of America" Exhibit
2007 Accepted into the Oil Painters of America Central Divison Annual Exhibit
2007 One Woman Show (May) Highlands Art Gallery
2007 Accepted into the 16th annual Oil Painters of America National Exhibit
2007 Listed in Who's Who in Oil Painters of America
2007 Accepted into the Salon International Show

Publications

2008 American Art Collector Magazine (May) feature article on One Woman Show
2006 Featured artist in "American Artist" for December