Elizabeth Mumford grew up on a farm in the Midwest, but spends every summer on Cape Cod. Today she paints professionally full time and lives with her son in the Victorian family house of her childhood. Elizabeth majored in Fine Arts at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, received her Master of Arts in Teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans, and taught art for nine years in Indiana and Hawaii. Her style is influenced by American Folk Art And Flemish painters of the 16th Century. Her signature is a black painted border with bronze stenciled corners and red letter text wrapping around the painting. The text reflects the setting, and the painting takes off on its own to tell a story that may not have been intended.