Elizabeth Wolff had the great luck of being read to when she was little, which encouraged a love of book "looking" when no one was around to read them aloud to her. She enjoyed the color and movement in the illustrations and often drew her own with crayons, colored pencils and markers. Her love of stories and curiosity in art gave Elizabeth the idea to become an illustrator of children’s books.
Elizabeth has taken two short courses in children’s book illustration and book binding at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston along with studies on her own in drawing, quilting, paper cutting, pottery decorating, and tin lamp punching. She has hung her art in over a dozen one woman art shows and has exhibited with Tomie de Paola in a show at the Wenham Museum, in Wenham, MA, during the spring of 2015. Elizabeth has sold her work at the Yale Center for British Art and The Florence Griswold Museum. Currently, her lamps are exhibiting at The Hen's Nest in Washington, CT.
Elizabeth grew up in a family with a wide range of artistic interests. Elizabeth's father is a potter, making historic flowerpots influenced from different references and time periods. Her mother took the Jack-of-all-trades route, working in various art forms: knitting, gardening, throwing flowerpots, reading, and playing early music on her viol. Robert Jay Wolff, Elizabeth's paternal grandfather, was an abstract expressionist from the Bauhaus period, while her maternal grandpa, Donald Warnock, handmade early period musical instruments (lutes, guitars, and viols) until passing away in 1997. Her grandma, Serenella Privitera Warnock, was a concert pianist and a gifted Waldorf teacher. Other family members add to the mix with early music recorder, chess, reading, drumming, carpentry, writing, storytelling, weaving, sewing, fixing the stove and the Sunday crossword.
Elizabeth works out of a lovely big-windowed studio in Northwest Connecticut.
Elizabeth has taken two short courses in children’s book illustration and book binding at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston along with studies on her own in drawing, quilting, paper cutting, pottery decorating, and tin lamp punching. She has hung her art in over a dozen one woman art shows and has exhibited with Tomie de Paola in a show at the Wenham Museum, in Wenham, MA, during the spring of 2015. Elizabeth has sold her work at the Yale Center for British Art and The Florence Griswold Museum. Currently, her lamps are exhibiting at The Hen's Nest in Washington, CT.
Elizabeth grew up in a family with a wide range of artistic interests. Elizabeth's father is a potter, making historic flowerpots influenced from different references and time periods. Her mother took the Jack-of-all-trades route, working in various art forms: knitting, gardening, throwing flowerpots, reading, and playing early music on her viol. Robert Jay Wolff, Elizabeth's paternal grandfather, was an abstract expressionist from the Bauhaus period, while her maternal grandpa, Donald Warnock, handmade early period musical instruments (lutes, guitars, and viols) until passing away in 1997. Her grandma, Serenella Privitera Warnock, was a concert pianist and a gifted Waldorf teacher. Other family members add to the mix with early music recorder, chess, reading, drumming, carpentry, writing, storytelling, weaving, sewing, fixing the stove and the Sunday crossword.
Elizabeth works out of a lovely big-windowed studio in Northwest Connecticut.