ELIZABETH MESH BIO

My art is a reminder of the universal love of nature. I explore the naturally created expressions of the earth and how that influences  and underpins human history.

 I turned to flowers as hope and acknowledgement of the ever-enduring beauty we live in because of nature.

I work in the presence of life. I wait on the flowers to bloom and then I work until they shrivel. I observe their shape, color, directional bias, texture, light flow and essence. In the process, I am usually working outside where there may be a hummingbird that decides I am in their way, or a snail that oozes their motion. This is also part of the work.

Influences, like other cultures, my own ancestry, the art world I cultivated around me in the form of work as an art therapist, an art museum guide and an actor, also carved the work you see today. Presence sustained from 30+ years of daily meditation trained me to be patient and involved wholly in the process of art.

The work is mostly black and white to invite my viewers to be a part of the artwork through their imagination of color. The drawings start small and finely detailed to endure the process of blowing them up to a giant size to gain the well deserved attention of the audience.

Elizabeth Mesh is a working artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

She has been written about in the Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican, and Albuquerque Journal. Her pisanki work was featured on Home and Garden Television.

When she is not creating visual art, she works as an actor on various tv and film sets, such as Better Call Saul and Crazy Heart. She also educates people and lectures about the history of New Mexico. She is an advocate for bicyclists in New Mexico and won the City of Santa Fe Mayor's Award for a "5 feet for Bikes" campaign.

She received a BA from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY, a graduate certificate from the School for International Training in India, and an MA from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM.