Elisabeth Bard studied fine art and photography at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio and worked as a graphic artist with 20+ years experience in the field. She returned full-time to photography during the late 1990s and makes this the main focus of her creative endeavors, viewing herself primarily as an artist who just happens to use a camera. Abstracts focus-ing upon texture, color and time are her main love and focus. Elisabeth has exhibited locally, including local museums such as the Biggs Museum of American Art
and the Delaware Art Museum, as well as internationally in Venice, Italy. She has won multiple awards for her work including the prestigious Delaware Emerging Artist for Photography and placed first and third in the Brandywine Plein Air Competition and was has been twice selected as a Master Artisan for Delaware By Hand, a division of the Biggs Museum in Dover, DE. She is a member of several local arts and photographic organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Art Organizations
ArtLane
Delaware By Hand
Center for Creative Arts

Purchases
Val d’Orcia November, Green Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware
Tulips O’Keefe, Untitled, Whitefall Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus, Delaware
8 Pieces PNC Bank Art Collection, Pennsylvania
10 Pieces Helen F. Graham Cancer Center of Christiana Hospital
3 Pieces Paula Brown-Steedly Collection
Assorted Private Collections

Awards
Single Photo PhotoPlace Gallery, Essential Water 2021
Two Photos Black and White Magazine 2020
Multiple Acceptances 12th Annual International Image Circuit 2020
First Place Regional Artists Show 2018
Acceptance to Biggs Shot 2018 Biggs Museum of American Art 2018-2019
Masters Ranking Delaware By Hand, 2017
Biggs Museum of American Art Dover, DE
First Place An Occasion for the Arts, Williamsburg, VA 2017
Honorable Mention Center for Creative Arts, Wilmington, DE 2017
Judges Choice Arts Alive, Ocean City MD 2016
Biggs Shot, Second Place Purchase Prize Biggs Museum of American Art 2016
First Place Photography Brandywine Plein Air 2015
Third Place Photography Brandywine Plein Air 2015
First Place Highland Park Arts Festival 2015
Second Place Center for Creative Arts 2014
Honorable Mention Center for the Creative Arts 2014
Third Place, Members Show Center for the Creative Arts 2013
Honorable Mention Art on the Square, Williamsburg, VA 2013
First Place Media Arts Festival 2012
First Place Media Arts Festival 2011
Emerging Artist – Photography State of Delaware 2011
Mayor’s Choice Award Arts Alive, Ocean City, MD 2011
One Click One Week Finalist Prolocco, San Giovanni d’Asso, Italy 2010
Special Award Port Warwick Arts Festival 2010
Second Place Havre de Grace Fine Art Festival 2010
First Place Media Arts Festival 2010
First Place Port Warwick Arts Festival, Photography 2009

Best in Show Havre De Grace Fine Art Festival 2009
First Place Photography Havre de Grace Fine Art Festival 2008
First Place Media Arts Festival 2008
DBH Master (for 5 years) Masters Designation, Delaware By Hand 2009
First Place Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts 2007
Second Place Havre De Grace Fine Art Festival 2007
Mayor’s Choice Award Arts Alive, Ocean City, MD 2007
Special Award for Photography Sketch Club 2007
Tony Calabro Award Cecil County Arts Council 2006
Third Place, Photography Havre De Grace 2006
Second Place Ocean City Boardwalk Arts Festival 2006
First Place, Photography Media Arts Festival 2006
First Place, Photography Havre de Grace Fine Art Festival 2005
Third Place, Photography Bel Air Fine Arts Show 2004
Second Place, Photography Havre de Grace Fine Art Festival 2004
First Place, Color Photography Cecil Country Center for the Arts 2004
Second Place, Overall New Hope Art Festival 2003
First Place, Color Photography Cecil County Center for the Arts 2002
Honorable Mention (2) Cecil County Center for the Arts 2002

Upcoming Exhibitions
“Light Weavings”, Blue Ball Barn, October 2023

Exhibitions What/When Type
“Secret Spaces” June-July 2023 Group Show
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
“Future Lancscapes” July -August 2023 Group Show
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
“Light Weavings” April 2023 Solo Show
Grand Opera House
“Light Weavings” Sept-Oct 2022 Solo Show
Newark Arts Alliance
“Light Weavings” December 2021 Solo Show
Buzzware Village Center
“Visualizing the Museum: ArtLane, May 3-July 21, 2019 Artlane Group Show
Biggs Museum of American Art,
“Colors of Japan” April 2018 Solo Show
Buzzware Village Center, Arden DE
“Selected Works” February 2018 Solo Show
Perfect Cup, Hockessin, DE
“Masterworks of Delaware By Hand” November -January, 2018 Group Show
Biggs Museum of American Art
“Colors of Japan” December 2017 Solo Show
Center for Creative Arts, Yorklyn, DE
“Abstract Art in Acadia’s Rocks” September 2017 Dual Exhibition with Patricia Field
Newark Arts Alliance, Newark DE
“Barrios of Tucson” March 2017 Solo Show
Perfect Cup, Hockessin, DE 2017
“Selected Works” March 2016 Solo Show
Perfect Cup, Hockessin, DE
“Walls of Italy” September-October 2015 Solo Show
Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA
“Details of Yosemite” June 2015 Solo Show
The Buzzware Gallery, Arden DE
“Venezia” March 2015 Solo Show
Colourworks, Wilmington, DE
“Recent Work” February 2015 Solo Show
Corridor 410, Center for Creative Arts,
“Obsession” May 2014 Solo Show
Wilmington Public Library, Wilmington, DE
“Transitions” May, 2014 Group Show
Delaware Art Museum,, Wilmington, DE
“Cold Things” February 2014 Solo Show
Cameras Etc., Wilmington, DE
“Gnarly” May, 2013 Solo Show
Colourworks Art Space, Wilmington, DE
“Provence” September 2013 Dual Exhibition
Center for Creative Arts Corridor 40
“Piazza” April 2012 Solo Exhibition
Mezzanine Gallery, City/County Building, Wilmington, DE
“Hawaii Up Close: The Big Island” February 2012 Solo Exhibition
Crosslands, Kennett Square, PA
“Hawaii Up Close: The Big Island” December 2011-January 2012 Dual Exhibition with Patricia Field
Wilmington Public Library
“2011 Fellowship Winners” July-October 2011 Group Exhibition
Biggs Museum of American Art
“Tulips O’Keefe” March-April 2011 Solo Exhibition
Wilmington Drama League, Wilmington, DE
“Muro” May, 2010 Solo Exhibition
Center for the Creative Arts, Centerville DE
“Pas de Deux: Death Valley” February, 2010 Dual Exhibition with Robert Tuttle
Colorworks, Wilmington DE
“Delaware By Hand Masters” Nov 2009/Jan2010 Group Exhibition
Delaware Art Museum
“Textures” April/May 2009 Solo Exhibition
Christina Cultural Arts Center
“Untitled” February, 2009 Solo Exhibition
MacEfee & Harvey, Centerville DE
“White” January, 2009 Solo Exhibition
Hudson Contemporary, Middletown DE
“Small Places and Florals” January/February 2009 Solo Exhibition
Kendall, Kennett Square, PA
“Small Places” December, 2008 Solo Exhibition
Crosslands, Kennett Square, PA
“White” June, 2008 Solo Exhibition
Newark Arts Alliance, Newark DE
“Baja” Land of Sand and Color” December, 2007 Solo Exhibition
Crosslands, Kennett Square, PA
“Baja: Land of Sand and Color” November, 2007 Solo Exhibition
Adria Café, Newark, DE
“White” February, 2007 Solo Exhibition
Crosslands, Kennett Square, PA
“Greece and Turkey” September, 2006 Solo Exhibition
Newark Municipal Building, Newark, DE
“Recent Works” April/May, 2006 Solo Exhibition
Chapel Street Players, Newark, DE
“After Rain” April, 2006 Solo Exhibition
Three Little Pigs, West Chester, PA
“After Rain” March, 2006 Solo Exhibition
North Wilmington Library
“Sandstone Patterns” February, 2006 Solo Exhibition
Crosslands, Kennett Square, PA
“Recent Works” February, 2005 Solo Exhibition
Copy Maven, Newark DE
“Recent Works “ December, 2004 Solo Exhibition
Wilmington Library
“Recent Works “ February, 2004 Solo Exhibition
North Wilmington Library
Plus 45+ group shows over the past 15+ years


STATEMENT

Texture, color and the patina of old buildings
stimulate the senses and lead me to create environmental tapestries and dreamlike scenes to envelop
the viewer.

I have long been fascinated in the passage of time, space
and environment and its impact upon the viewer; and in the possibilities of getting the viewer to think and feel about more than what immediately hits the eye; I want to envelop the viewer in the image, wrap them into its environment and
have them leave with a different view
of their world.
I have been interested in motion and the passage of
time for my entire artistic career, including when I was painting. Lately, I have been experimenting with “painting” with light across the sensor of the camera using a slow shutter speed and moving the camera.
So the camera is my brush and light the paint.” Now if
I could just figure out the third dimension, so I can
have a bit of depth to that paint.”
The images I am capturing are quite impressionistic.
And they are sometimes quite evocative and colorful. What I capture is not quite what the eye sees, but
then photography has never claimed to be an exact re-presentation of reality. Photography is, at its very best,
a representation of what the artist sees; feels and wants to communicate to the viewer. What I love about working in this manner is the ability to represent the passage of time and getting the viewer to see and sense what I feel.
I am in search of the images that have a quiet, meditative
quality, simple gifts to soothe our souls.
Texture, color and the patina of our surroundings stimulate my
senses and lead to the creation of environmental tapestries and dreamlike scenes.
Throughout my career, I have tried to create the sensation of time within two-dimensional spaces wheth-er through paint or the movement of the camera. The movement of light across the camera sensor and the motion of the camera feels like a dance to me. I create windows into worlds of the space we inhabit. These are gateways into fantasy, fairy-like places that exist between the seemingly hard and fast edifices of our rapidly changing world.
I love the possibilities of the viewer thinking and feeling about more than what immediately hits the eye – I want to envelop the viewer in the image, wrap them into its environment and then have them depart with a different experience of our wonderful world.