There is a place an artist can go within that detaches creativity from convention. We leave this place as young adults to embrace the study of, and the striving for, technical perfection. While these years of study provide us with valuable tools, they are finite for many. An achievement to grow beyond. This return to the creativity we are born with cannot be taught to us by academia nor convention. It is a lonely and personal path, but a very fulfilling one. The human experience is our best teacher.

Elsbeth's sculptural style is an application of her own multi-dimensional humanity in clay. Translated into her figurative pieces is the experience of the richness of dreams, the mystically sacred, an awe of the natural world and the transformational alchemy of grief. Each of these are as much her anatomy as that of flesh, bone, and genetic predisposition. However, the underlying ingredient that brings her work to life is the quality of transcendence their faces and postures express.

Departing from convention and allowing the sculpture to create itself is difficult for the Western artist, but it is this very quality Elsbeth seeks in her work. Her career is literally her life. A journey, not a destination.