Elizabeth Patterson (born 1954) is an American Photorealist artist whose color pencil drawings portray intricate and abstracted landscapes, often emphasizing the subjective quality that water brings to a composition.
Patterson earned recognition from an early age, but her success as an emerging artist came to a halt in 1984 due to a severe injury that resulted in the complete loss of use of her drawing hand.
Little did she know, the visual impressions of this trip were committed to memory and would resurface many years later to inspire her color pencil drawings.
Thirteen years later, her partner insisted that she return to her art career, and she was surprised to learn that her gift for drawing was still present despite her injury.
[2] "Patterson's unique expression of Photorealism is both incredibly realistic and simultaneously dreamlike, wavering between abstraction and hyperrealism.