Winner of the 2021 Society of Women Artists’ The Artist Magazine Editor’s Choice Award, Elizabeth Nast originally trained as a product designer, but discovered that fine art was her real passion and has been a professional artist since 2008. Since then, she has regularly exhibited with the Pastel Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Society of Women Artists, and the Society of Graphic Fine Artists. Elizabeth is the recipient of many awards, including the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award, a Jackson’s Art Prize and the North-East Regional Prize at the ING Discerning Eye. She has also exhibited with the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
A contemporary exponent of 19th-century realism, Elizabeth loves painting ordinary aspects of life, such as people in shops and markets, posters and signs on shop fronts, and mundane urban streets, often marked with graffiti. She says she perceives herself as a modern-day William Hogarth, observing small nuances of life and painting them for posterity.
Elizabeth was born in Lewisham, London,
