Elizabeth's profile
Elizabeth Cadwalader, a native Baltimorean, began her formal art studies in the early 1970s at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Following a decade of extensive work and travel throughout the United States and abroad, she returned to Baltimore, where she devoted several years to teaching English as a Second Language and raising a family.
In 2001, she resumed her artistic practice with renewed focus, pursuing coursework at institutions including Towson University, the University of Notre Dame of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the Mitchell School, and the Zoll Studio of Fine Art. She also participated in specialized workshops across the country. Since 2013, she has maintained a working studio at the Mill Centre in Baltimore, where she paints both from life and in plein air.
Primarily working in oil and watercolor, Cadwalader focuses on landscapes, also painting some still lifes and interiors, with occasional explorations into abstraction. Her studio contains a small etching press, where she creates whimsical monoprints. Travel continues to be a part of her artistic process—she frequently sketches and paints in watercolor or gouache while away from Maryland, later developing these works into larger pieces in the studio.
Her work has been shown both in solo shows and in juried and group exhibits in Maryland. Her paintings can also be found in private collections in Maryland, other states across the U.S., and Europe.
Cadwalader’s work has been praised for its versatility, its gestural style and sense of rhythm and movement in the composition, as well as her experimentation with
unusual color palettes.
Selected Exhibits:
Solo: Gallery Unicorn, Along the Way, 2025; Broadmead, Natural Reflections, 2024
Two and Three Person: Carroll Mansion Art Gallery, Inside/Out, 2009; Gallery Unicorn, Painting Perspectives, 2009; Hoffberger Gallery, Framing the Landscape, 2011; Irvine Nature Center: Wandering Our World, 2018
Group: A Brush with Creativity, (2025); Zoll Studio (2024), TAC Gallery (2024); Fox Gallery 2023; Gallery Unicorn( Anticipation, 2019; Vision, 2016; Waterworks 2015; Interdependence, 2014; Painting Perspectives, 2011), Crystal Moll Gallery (Anything Goes, 2015); Baltimore County Art Guild, 2015; Cadwalader Studio (fundraiser for ASTT, 2015); Cylburn Arboretum (2011, 2012, 2014), Roland Park Place (Light and Dark, 2014), Circle Gallery in Annapolis (Strokes of Genius 2012), Slayton House Gallery (2010), Brightwood Center (2010), Antreasian Gallery (2009-2011), Atwater's (2009), Mat About You Gallery (2009), Towson Arts Collective (2008, '09, '10, ’11, ‘12), Gordon Center for Fine Arts (2008), Parlor Gallery (2013), Three Arts Club (2006, 2007), Carroll Mansion Art Gallery (2007, 2008, 2009), Boston Properties building (2005), Temple Oheb Shalom (2005), Meadow Mill Athletic Club (2004), , and Towson University Art Space (2002),
Awards: First Place, Unicorn Gallery: Anticipation, First Place, 2019; Unicorn Gallery: Vision, October 2016; Second Place, Through a Woman’s Eyes, Antreasian Gallery, 2011; DOC Artist Services Award, Cylburn Celebration of Art, 2012; and several Special Merit Awards, Light, Space, Time Gallery
