Elaine was born in Elgin in the northeast of Scotland and now lives in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire in the southwest of England. Art has been a passion ever since she can remember and she has always enjoyed a wide variety of creative hobbies. As well as using more traditional media such as acrylics, watercolour, and mixed media, Elaine enjoys using the computer to design original Digital Art in prismatic colours. Another favourite pastime is working with hot, coloured beeswax to produce original Fantasy and Abstract Encaustic Art. Elaine loves the vibrancy of the colours and wonderful three-dimensional textures that can be achieved and each Encaustic Wax painting is totally unique and can never be repeated. Since receiving a gift of a digital camera in 2003 Elaine has amassed a large collection of Wildlife, Nature, Seascape and Sunset images that she uses as inspiration for her paintings. These are available as photographic prints and on box-framed canvas.