Elizabeth Payne received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MA from Hunter College, New York, New York. Her paintings range from abstraction to figurative images and landscapes of California, New York and Texas. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas, and the Artists Looking at Art series at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.