Meet Elizabeth Lorayne
Elizabeth Lorayne is an artist, printmaker, ICF-credentialed coach, art curator, and award-winning author whose work has always asked the same question: how does slowing down and attending to image, story, and inner life help us find our way?
That question has taken many forms. It has been children's books written in haiku, celebrating girls who were brave and scientifically curious at a time when few books did. It has been a printmaking studio built from scratch, hand-cutting collagraph plates and pulling prints through an etching press to make images designed to evoke what lies beneath conscious thought. It has been the curation of exhibitions where artists and visitors are invited to see differently. And it has been coaching, sitting with people in the middle of transition, uncertainty, or the quiet ache of a life that has lost its thread, and helping them find it again.
These are not separate pursuits. They are one inquiry, expressed in different forms.
The Work
Elizabeth's coaching practice, Animae Depth Coaching, is grounded in Jungian psychology and expressive arts approaches. She works with individuals navigating life transitions, creative blocks, identity questions, and moments of reorientation, supporting them through image-based inquiry, symbolic language, and reflective dialogue. Her sessions draw directly from her life as a practicing artist: the same quality of attention she brings to the studio, she brings to every conversation.
As art curator at Illume Gallery within Illume Books in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Elizabeth conceives and curates themed exhibitions that bring contemporary artists into dialogue around shared ideas and imagery. She holds a deep belief that art is not decoration but a living tool for reflection and transformation.
Her creative practice centers on collagraphy, a traditional printmaking process of building and inking hand-cut plates to produce works rich in texture, symbol, and psychological resonance. Her prints have been exhibited in more than 25 shows across New England and internationally, including two solo exhibitions, and her work has been featured in Pressing Matters, the international printmaking magazine.
As an author and publisher through White Wave Press, Elizabeth has written and published the award-winning Adventures of Piratess Tilly series, reviewed by Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly, and the Historical Heroines Coloring Book: Pioneering Women in Science from the 18th and 19th Centuries, funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign. Her poetry and flash fiction have appeared in publications including the Boston Literary Magazine and the Haiku Foundation.
All of this work came together most fully in Animae: The Source (White Wave Press, 2025), a 48-card values-based deck hand-printed via traditional collagraphy and now used in coaching, therapy, education, and community settings worldwide. The deck grew out of years of creative practice and a deep belief in the power of image and metaphor to help people reconnect with what matters most.
Background
Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary psychology, art, and writing from The New School in Manhattan. Her work is shaped by a lifelong engagement with symbolism, mythology, dream imagery, and the natural world, as well as by lived experience: growing up along the shorelines of the Pacific Northwest, studying and creating in New York City, and later becoming a mother.
She is a member of the printmaking collective Four Sparrows, an Artist Member of the Marblehead Arts Association, and a member of the Monotype Guild of New England and the international association Artfello.
A Note from Elizabeth
At the heart of everything I do is a belief in slowing down enough to listen, to images, to stories, and to what quietly asks for our attention. Whether through art, writing, coaching, or tools like Animae, my work is an invitation to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what matters.
What you have forgotten you know is waiting. This is how we find it.
Begin with a conversation