Fifty Years of Creativity: A Chronology of Work by Elaine Liberio

The Cheshire Union is pleased to welcome Elaine Liberio to The Rusty Brundage Memorial Art Gallery! Elaine owned and operated Liberio Art on East Main Street in Palmyra for nearly 5 years and has been painting for even longer. This show will be a chronological look at her history of creativity for the past 50 years.

Elaine's work will be on display from June 22nd-July 27th and an opening reception will be held on June 22nd from 2-4pm. We hope you will join us!

Elaine will also be teaching an oil painting workshop on Sunday, July 13th. For details and to preregister, visit: https://www.cheshireunion.com/event-details/oil-painting-with-rags

About the Artist:

From her earliest memory, all Elaine wanted to do was become an artist. She was greatly influenced by her uncle, Edward Lennon, an excellent oil painter in the Rochester area and as a young girl she would sit and watch him paint at his easel for hours at a time. It was her uncle Eddie who gave Elaine her first set of oil paints at the age of 13. While she works in many different media, oil would remain her favorite medium from that point on. 

After college, where she majored in painting and printmaking, Elaine has continued to create art, teach classes and participate in shows, art fairs and plein air festivals. In May of 2020, Elaine rented, renovated and opened Liberio Art in the heart of historic Palmyra. Here she offered group and private instruction in oil, watercolor, drawing, mixed media and much more. In 2021 and 2022, she sponsored and managed the “Paint Palmyra” Plein Air Painting Festival as a fundraiser to benefit the Palmyra Fire Company. 

After almost 5 years of being located on E. Main St. in Palmyra, she closed the studio in December of 2024 and moved back to her home studio. She decided that it was time to move on to new adventures that gave her more flexibility.

Elaine is a current member of Western Wayne Art Group; the Ontario County Arts Council; Yates County Arts Council; and the Palmyra Artists Group. She also has an informal group of artist friends that she shares artistic creativity with.

Her philosophy of art is simple. God’s inspiration fills her until it overflows as she creates and teaches. If she has stirred emotion in those viewing her art, then she feels she has been a success. She strives to instill passion for the creative arts in the hearts of others and give her students the instruction they need to make amazing art.