As a child, Toronto born Elizabeth DeVries (EdeV) spent countless hours in nature. She loved to spend hours alone with her wild creature friends. Her deep love of animals, especially horses, and the time she spent alone wandering in forests or near lakes brought solace to her solitary soul. 

She recognized that her sensitivity to beauty was inborn, and that she viewed  life through a different lens than most. From early childhood, Elizabeth had visionary experiences that brought her into mystical and magical worlds.  Her visionary experiences were commonplace in “her world” as she sat amongst burnished leaves and built altars to celebrate God’s Creation with her “imaginary friends..”

Elizabeth writes, "My first love affair with flowers commenced with the rose. Be it a delicate tea rose with the light shining through or the multi-petaled hybrid, they all stir my heart with sweet memories of life with my long deceased mother. Each day of her life started and ended with flowers. She nursed them through the harsh Canadian winters, delicately wrapping them with cloth to avoid the deep ground frost. She taught me to give them loving care, to transplant, prune and fertilize them, to wash their leaves and caress their spirits with a soft encouraging voice. I happily embrace her legacy of love."

Biography

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Working as an artist recreating visions of the essence of the beauty of flowers, a wonderful healing began to take place within her soul. The colors, the different geometric and organic forms unique to each individual flower created deep spiritual transformations within her.

“My heart wishes to share the beauty of this experience with as many as possible.”

While Elizabeth’s early life exposed her to strong academic achievement, a different sort of life beckoned to her as she grew, traveled, and studied at university. She had continued to ride horses throughout her teen years and had become an accomplished equestrian. In her early twenties she packed her bags and moved to the west coast of British Columbia where she backpacked and rode through the glorious mountain terrain, observing the lush floral beauty that surrounded her.

Her passion for horses deepened. Her skills helped many unmanageable horses become champions. Her work as a renowned horse whisperer, and her affinity for nature deepened and expanded over the next twenty years.

It was a natural progression of this innate appreciation of God’s handiwork that has led Elizabeth towards creating photographic collages. Using photography, she manages to capture the unique “essence of beauty” in each flower.

Since her visionary childhood experiences, Elizabeth has considered herself to be on a spiritual quest. After moving to California, in her mid forties, she spent the next 16 years of her life helping others uncover their own true “essence of beauty” through teaching classes which stripped away the artifice so indoctrinated into women from a young age and let them see, and learn to appreciate, their inner beauty. Her seminars have been presented in Los Angeles and New York, and she has acted as a spiritual counselor and energetic healer to thousands of clients.

Elizabeth might fairly be described as one of those precious few who stares outwards at the infinite sky and inwards into the infinite beauty contained within a dew drop or the aging petal of a dying rose, and sees the eternal in each of us.

“To me that which is infinite and eternal is clearly expressed in things that may go unnoticed in our hectic modern lives. It brings me great delight to reveal these treasures and help others walk this path of beauty that I see.”

EdeV