A woman standing by a wooden table with art supplies, pink tulips in a vase, and a large leafy plant inside a bright room with big windows and curtains, looking at her art supplies.
A woman standing by a wooden table with art supplies, pink tulips in a vase, and a large leafy plant inside a bright room with big windows and curtains, looking at her art supplies.

Finding the quiet within the chaos.

Elizabeth Buquoi is a contemporary fine artist whose work explores the relationship between the grounded, quiet spaces we crave and the beautiful, loud reality of the homes we actually live in.

Operating out of her home studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Elizabeth creates acrylic paintings inspired by her natural surroundings that serve as visual anchors for busy spaces. Her work is deeply informed by her own daily reality of raising two young boys—a life filled with constant motion, joyful noise, and the profound need to intentionally carve out moments of stillness.

A woman in white clothing sitting on a stool, painting on a small canvas in a cozy, well-lit room with art on the walls. An easel with a pink painting is nearby.

“I paint the spaces we inhabit—both the wide-open escapes we dream of and the beautifully messy realities we live in every day.

Because my home studio is fundamentally shaped by the loud, fast-paced energy of raising two young boys, my work is an exercise in finding equilibrium. I want my canvases to reflect that tension not just in the imagery, but in the very fibers of the materials.

Before a single brushstroke is applied, I begin with raw, unprimed cotton. Using fiber-reactive dyes, I hand-dye the raw canvas in blindingly bright, fluorescent tones. The neon color physically bonds with the cotton, becoming a permanent part of the substrate. I then stretch the canvas and build my calm, thoughtful images directly over it.

By allowing microscopic slivers of these raw, neon-dyed fibers to remain exposed at the edges of the final piece, I leave a 'neon heartbeat' on the canvas. It is my way of honoring the untamed, joyful life that is permanently woven into our spaces.”

An artist's workspace with various paint tubes, a palette with mixed colors, and brushes on a wooden table. A person standing nearby is mixing paint.
An artist's workspace with various paint tubes, a palette with mixed colors, and brushes on a wooden table. A person standing nearby is mixing paint.
Two children and an adult assembling a red painted wooden box on a beige sheet, with tools and supplies around them.
Two children and an adult assembling a red painted wooden box on a beige sheet, with tools and supplies around them.