About
(formerly Elizabeth Butler)
Elizabeth Page is an artist devoted to authenticity, the pursuit of creativity, and oneness with the natural world.
Through her work, she explores what happens when we release resistance to creation itself — when we allow what wants to move through us to take form, freely and honestly.
Her paintings are born from this surrender. They invite a remembering — not of technique or form, but of something older inside the body, a truth that recognizes itself in color and light.
Working with materials that mirror nature’s alchemy — gold, silver, copper, and mother-of-pearl — she creates surfaces that shift with time, light, and presence.
For Elizabeth, painting is less about depicting the world and more about dissolving the separation between self and nature. It is both a creative practice and a way of being — one that returns her, again and again, to what is real.
At the heart of my work is a simple, radical truth:
We are not separate from nature. We are nature.
Artist Statement
My practice is a discipline of presence — an act of listening and allowing. Each painting begins with the same devotion: to listen deeply, to follow intuition without question, and to let what wants to move, move through.
My work is centered around nature — florals and landscapes — because at its heart is a simple truth: we are not separate from nature. We are nature. Can you feel it?
All of my work emerges out of necessity — a commitment to following my creative impulse wherever it leads. Each piece becomes a living record of connection and flow, an offering to the same creative force that moves through all of us. Every painting is both evidence and invitation: a reminder of our inherent belonging to the natural world, and a mirror in which you might see your own beauty reflected back.
The work invites participation. It shifts as you do — light reflects, shapes appear and dissolve. What you see depends on where you stand, how you move, and your own memory of nature.
My art doesn’t lead you somewhere new. It brings you back to what has always been yours: the intelligence of nature, the joy of play, the experience of beauty, and the freedom to follow what inspires you.
What sets my work apart is my devotion to the materials themselves. Each metal — Japanese silver, German gold, Italian variegated brass, copper, and mother-of-pearl — carries its own temperament and demands its own care. I have spent years in relationship with them, learning how they move, how they resist, and how they catch the light.
The seamless surface is the result of countless experiments, each layer infused with reverence, presence, and play.
Collectors across the U.S. and abroad live with my work because it transforms them — grounding and expanding them in its presence, reminding them what it feels like to be fully alive.
I don’t create to replicate. I create to transform — through beauty, presence, and nature herself.
The Process & Materials
Each painting is built slowly and intentionally — through hand-torn metal leaf, layers of oil, and carefully chosen mixed media on wood panel or paper. The fragility of these materials demands presence, surrender, and patience.
And yet, there is play too — letting a fragment fall where it will, the joy of discovering forms that emerge through chance as much as design.
I work primarily with:
Gold leaf (7–23 carat)
Genuine silver, copper, and variegated brass
Hand-dyed and marbled silver leaf
Mother-of-pearl and abalone shell, especially in the floral series, In Bloom
Touches of oil paint to modulate light and guide the eye
These materials are chosen for their ability to reflect and transmit light in distinct ways, creating surfaces that shift with time, season, and movement.
Each painting is sealed with a high-gloss, UV-protective varnish to preserve its luminous depth.
These are not static works.
They change — with you, with the day, with the light.
Current Work
My current work explores how we see ourselves as part of, or separate from, each other and nature .
Who would we be if we saw ourselves as part of nature?
Each collection below explores a facet of that question.
Living Landscapes
Reflective, light-sensitive works that explore connection to landscape, light, and presence through precious metals and oil.
In Bloom
Abstracted florals built of torn metal leaf, mother-of-pearl, and abalone. Sensual, iridescent, contemporary — these works reimagine the floral tradition through texture, light, and imperfection.
Re:Enter Nature
A developing exhibition project that invites immersive reconnection with the living world. Designed to dissolve the illusion of separation, these interactive, light-responsive installations create space for intimacy, participation, and the remembrance that we are nature, too.
Dress / Undress
An exploration of the female form through the language of garment and pattern. Beginning with metal-leaf collages on panel that echo the contours of vintage dress patterns, this series moves toward installation, playfully exploring embodiment, exposure, and transformation.
Note: Dress / Undress, and Re:Enter Nature are shared in their becoming exclusively through the Collector’s Circle.
Select Exhibitions
2025 The Celebration of Fine Art
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 “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-current 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