Elizabeth Buller was born in Kansas, but spent her formative years growing up in Liberia, West Africa. This experience as a third culture kid has shaped her artistic career, allowing her to integrate concepts regarding the human experience – emphasizing trauma and empathy - into her work. Elizabeth works in a variety of mediums, including oil and acrylic. Her work focuses on exploring relationships between subject and environment and how the two inform each other and meld together to create a single cohesive idea, employing these qualities to encourage the viewer to think more deeply about the subject. Elizabeth strives to relate to her audience on a fundamental level; by painting with her own very human experience, she hopes her work will prompt people to empathize not only with her own art, but with each other, because they, too, have encountered something similar. Elizabeth spent two years taking oil painting classes at Kansas State University. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree at K-State but continues to cultivate her creations whenever possible. 

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