A native Brazilian, Elisabeth Trostli moved to New York in 1961. She received her artistic education at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Illustration, attaining a BFA’72 and MAE in ’76.
In 1981, Elisabeth Trostli established herself as a successful free-lance commercial artist and designer serving the jewelry, advertising, stationery and giftware industries located in Providence, RI.
In 2011, Elisabeth Trostli relocated to Sarasota, Florida. In this gorgeous cultural, cosmopolitan city, Elisabeth has truly unleashed her creativity. She works as a digital painter, bringing creative ideas and imaginings to life using modern tools of technology. Adobe Photoshop computer software is skillfully used to blend Elisabeth Trostli’s own original hand-rendered illustrations, antique papers, exquisite embellishments, photography and geometrical fractals in a multi-layered unique collage format that is both decorative and meaningful. Her digital paintings are available printed and mounted on gallery-wrapped canvas, and/or archival paper, greeting cards.
