Born into an artistic family, Elsbeth McLeod began drawing at an early age. A human skull that her mother owned and the family had named Demetria taught Elsbeth the foundations of facial expression. Demetria occupies her studio to this day as a constant anatomical consultant.

A career that began with selling paintings to college roommates included multi-generational portrait painting in Boston, Massachusetts, and Virginia, large-scale oils of the Washington and British Columbia interior, selling primarily to Canadian collectors.

After a ten-year career in the publishing industry as a graphic artist, Elsbeth built a studio in Poulsbo, Washington, where she made her long-term interest in clay a career reality. Within a short time, Elsbeth began creating pieces that more and more expressed her spiritual outlook and she relinquished control on the outcome of her sculpture to a compelling inner prompting.

Limiting the design phase of her work and trusting instinct produced a series of pieces that seemed to sculpt themselves. She began to earn herself a body of enthusiastic West Coast as well as international collectors.

An opportunity to study with Peter Voulkos and Paul Soldner was a liberating experience for her, and together with generous royalties from past publishing projects enabled her to stretch her artistic boundaries.

In 1999 Elsbeth cast her first works in bronze, meeting with immediate success and today counts thirteen bronze editions among her inventory.