Elizabeth Deans Paterson MBE (1894 – 5 July 1970) was an Australian commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator.

[4] At the time of her first marriage in 1923 to Kenneth Fossie Newman, Paterson had already made a name for herself for her drawings and portraits of children.

[6][7] By the mid-1920s she and her sister Esther had established themselves as commercial artists who were "the cleverest designers in Australia" of posters, illustrated books, calendars and Christmas cards.

[8] In 1922 they held a joint exhibition in Queen's Hall, Melbourne which was opened by Prime Minister Billy Hughes.

[9] Her 1931 solo exhibition was opened by the Melbourne lord mayor, Harold Gengoult Smith,[10] while in 1935 the lady mayoress, Mrs A. G. Wales, did the honours.