Hello, I’m Elizabeth Ouzts, a poet, photographer, and artist in Charlotte, NC.
I have recently come back to art after years of telling myself I didn’t have time and that I’d get around to it later. When I left my job in corporate finance during the first year of COVID I suddenly found myself with the amazing gift of time to create and explore. I work in mixed media because I love the mixing and matching, the amazing and unexpected results of watercolor over oil pastel, ink over acrylic, hand embroidery on a page from an old book. I take inspiration from nature, her colors, patterns, and movement and pair this with canvases created from dictionaries, maps, and pages from antique books having the art reflect the words on the page. I feel that I’m recycling and preserving things from the past and making them new again while making them my own.