Elizabeth Kinahan

DURANGO, CO

Elizabeth Kinahan received her Bachelor’s of Fine Art degree from the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey in 2004. The following year she packed up the car and headed west, a move that would transform her creative process immensely. Although she had planned to move to Arizona, a stop in the town of Durango, Colorado became the beginning of a deep love of the high desert. Knowing from a young age that her life needed to be lived in connection with the natural world, Elizabeth has found that need fulfilled in the mountains of the southwest. She currently spends her days painting with her two dogs in a cabin just outside of town, where she routinely gets visits from deer, turkeys, bears, fox and coyotes. While the wildlife will make her grab her camera and run to the window, it’s still the agricultural animals that compel her to visit farms, ranches and rescues from coast to coast, in search of the next great story, the next gorgeous animal.  Elizabeth’s art aims to add joy, beauty and compassion into the world, and serves to benefit organizations that rescue and protect both wild and domesticated animals.