Liza Ellis

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Nature's beauty is the most wonderful of all.  But, paintings offer uplifting and colorful scenes to nourish the soul when we do not have a panoramic view from our windows or when we have no nature view at all unless we have pictures.

Liza Ellis paints contemporary impressionistic realistic scenes, mostly of the Boston Public Gardens and local Boston landscapes.  Occasional flower arrangements also are offered.  Her grandmother painted impressionistic flowers and local Gloucester scenes.

Liza Ellis was born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 1948.  She has two grown children, one employed in insurance claims and the other an architect.  She studied painting one semester in college at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, under Judith Armbruster, in 1967.  Painting is a career change. Before children, she was a publicist for a Connecticut state government agency, the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, for 2.5 years.  She was also an Editorial Assistant at Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company in Boston, and a Systems and Procedures Analyst Trainee, at Aetna Life and Casualty, Hartford.  She holds a M.S. Journalism: Science Communication from Boston University (1975) and a B.A. English and Biology from Cedar Crest College (1970).