Elizabeth Crawford
illustrator
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Represented by Victoria Wells Arms
Elizabeth Crawford is a children's book illustrator and writer, sculptor, and photographer. A love for the natural world fuels her work, a passion rooted in years as a country child. Daily walks in the woods with the family dogs and cats, and the neighbor’s cows, marked her imagination deeply with nature’s exquisite forms and fascinating cycles of growth. Her imagery and language seek to prompt this wonder so that children might linger longer over the nature they discover and forge their own curiosities. In 2000, Elizabeth began photographing her sculpture in environments as children’s book illustrations. Her illustrated books include Cave: An Evocation of the Beginnings of Art, by Richard Lewis, and several books in an iPad readers series developed by Tools of the Mind, an education publisher. The fall of 2019 launched a focused study of plants gathered on neighborhood walks. In photographs, she transforms ordinary flowers, leaves, sticks, stems, seeds, and pods into all manner of animated forms, including the rarely seen cattail dog, burdock rodent, and lamb’s ear fox.
