Heide VanDoren Betz: Please tell us about your background, your upbringing.
Elizabeth Barlow: I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah in a house filled with art and surrounded by flower gardens. It now seems inevitable that I am painting flowers. My father, the late Utah artist Philip Barlow, was enormously gifted and was my first mentor. My parents collected art, and our family vacations always involved visits to galleries and museums. Art was a natural part of our family life. My mother was, and is, a passionate gardener, and our backyard had flowers, a little pond, paths, and very little grass. Of course, as a child, I envied friends whose yards had actual lawns!
I always loved drawing. I was consumed with horses as a girl and drew them…
