As a painter, art has been central to Elisabeth Mention since childhood.  Born in California to a family of creative souls she was encouraged to pursue her own artistic path.

She studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara and graduated from the University of California Berkeley.

Her professional life was spent at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles for over thirty years as a Painting Conservator, restoring Old Master pictures.  That expertise took her to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery where she spent brief periods as a Visiting Conservator.

Throughout her years restoring art she put her own artistic voice aside and only in retirement did she engage fully in producing her own works.  She paints primarily in oil and watercolor, focusing on  landscape, still life and the figure.

Elisabeth lives in beautiful Port Townsend, Washington where the magnificence of the Pacific Northwest is a constant inspiration.

Her works are in collections in the United States, Mexico and France.