CALGARY, AB | A member of the Mistawasis First Nation in Saskatchewan, Elizabeth's Plains Cree and Metis heritage are the creative foundation of her work.
Four Sky Thunder was Elizabeth's great-great-Grandfather. He was a counsellor and medicine man in Big Bear's tribe. Four Sky Thunder burned down the Roman Catholic church in Frog Lake during the 1885 conflict. He was imprisoned in Stoney Mountain Penitentiary. Elizabeth's grandfather James Solomon Buller was born on the Sweetgrass Reserve. He was a survivor of the Indian Residential School in North Battleford. James m arried Rosoina Demarais Campbell, a Saskatchewan Metis. Rosina enjoyed making beaded jewelry, clothing, ornaments and other crafts.
Elizabeth's grandparents passed on to their family some of the language, artistic traditions and storytelling of the Plains Cree. Her art cards, available at shopAGA, illustrate Cree syllabics, beadwork patterns, and tattoo symbols like those drawn by Four Sky Thunder.
Elizabeth has been employed in a First Nations art gallery, the hospitality industry, and corporate sales across Canada. Her work is shown in galleries in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
