about
(formerly Elizabeth Butler)
Elizabeth Page (formerly Elizabeth Butler) is an American artist whose work explores the relationship between perception, material, and the living world. Her practice spans painting and mixed media, with emerging investigations that explore how visual experience can reshape our relationship to nature.
Page received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Arizona State University, where she trained in figurative and portrait painting. Over the past decade she has developed a professional studio practice rooted in experimentation with reflective materials, layered surfaces, and shifting perceptual environments.
Her earlier work became known for luminous floral paintings built on gold leaf grounds. In recent years, her practice has evolved toward mixed-metal compositions incorporating silver, copper, variegated brass, paper, and natural materials. These works respond dynamically to light and viewer movement, allowing forms to appear and dissolve across the surface.
Page’s work is held in private collections throughout the United States and internationally.
Her current studio practice centers on a series of evolving investigations that explore perception, material intelligence, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Elizabeth Page lives and works in Cave Creek, Arizona, where she maintains a studio with Carlos Page Studio and Gallery. She shares life with her partner, sculptor Carlos Page, and their young family.
Across the studio practice, a central question continues to surface:
What happens when we begin to experience ourselves not as separate from nature, but as part of her living intelligence?
Artist Statement
I create worlds for viewers to step into—spaces that invite them to dissolve their sense of otherness.
Through painting and mixed media, I construct visual environments that shift with perception. As viewers move, light changes, forms appear and dissolve, and the experience of the work continually reorganizes itself.
Rather than depicting specific scenes or moments, the works function as perceptual spaces where materials, light, and form interact in ways that shift as the viewer moves. Each piece becomes a world, unfolding differently depending on who is looking and how they encounter it.
At the center of this practice is a quiet inquiry: what does it feel like to be inside nature? To remember that we are not separate from nature, but expressions of the same living intelligence?
These works invite a simple recognition: we are not separate from nature—we are nature perceiving itself.
The work does not attempt to represent the natural world from a distance. Instead, it creates spaces where that recognition can be experienced directly. The viewer does not stand outside the image; they participate in it.
The questions explored in my work continue to unfold through a series of evolving studio investigations—
bodies of work that include both completed paintings and works in process as they explore perception, material, and our relationship with the living world from different directions.
Select Exhibitions
2025 The Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2024 “Hidden in The Hills”, Carlos Page Studio, Cave Creek, AZ
2023 Cawdrey Gallery, “Whitefish Gallery Night” Whitefish, MT
2023 The Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2022 Step Gallery, “Home,” Phoenix, AZ
2022 Gallery Mar Carmel, “Abundance”, solo show, Carmel, California
2021 The Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2020 The Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2019 9 The Gallery, “Small Works Show,” Phoenix, AZ
2019 The Celebration of Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2018 The Marshall Gallery, “Artworks for Charity,” Scottsdale AZ
2017 The Marshall Gallery, “Artworks for Charity,” Scottsdale AZ
2012 Gallery 100, “Surface” Tempe, AZ
2011 Virginia G. Piper Performing Arts Center, “Phoenix One,” Phoenix, AZ
2011 The Artist’s Studio at The Farm at South Mountain, “Spirit and Song,” Phoenix, AZ
Publications and Media
“Featured Artist”, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, online, December 2021
“Beauty, The Intuition of Truth.” Virtue Magazine. March 2019. Issue 003
“Studio Session.” Phoenix Magazine. Vol. 54 No. 10, October 2019. p 46
“Art and Life.” Voyage Magazine. June 26, 2018
Teaching
2016-present Private lessons and workshops
2012-2018 Art Teacher @ Great Hearts Academies
2015 Bargue drawing workshop @ Great Hearts Academies
2014 Portrait drawing workshop @ Great Hearts Academies
Education
2013 Bachelor in Fine Arts, Arizona State University