Meet Elizabeth

Elizabeth Lorayne is an artist, printmaker, and award-winning author, as well as an ICF-credentialed coach with training in Jungian-informed and expressive arts–based approaches. Her work lives at the intersection of creativity, reflection, and inner life—expressed through visual art, writing, coaching, and the Animae deck.

Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary psychology, art, and writing from The New School in Manhattan. Her work is shaped by a long engagement with symbolism, mythology, dream imagery, and the natural world, as well as by lived experience across different landscapes and life stages.

Growing up exploring the shorelines of the Pacific Northwest, later studying and creating in New York City, and eventually embracing motherhood, Elizabeth developed a deep sensitivity to place, pattern, and inner change. These experiences continue to inform her artistic and reflective practices.

Her work invites people — in whatever season of life — to explore imagination, meaning, and inner movement.

Across her art, writing, and coaching, Elizabeth is interested in how imagination and creative inquiry help people listen inwardly, navigate transition, and reclaim a sense of agency. She is the creator of Animae: The Source, a values-based card deck designed to support reflection, conversation, and meaning-making across ages and settings.

Elizabeth lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts with her husband, Robert Lorayne, and their daughter.

Books & Publishing

In 2014, Elizabeth founded White Wave Press to publish children’s books celebrating strong, intelligent, and adventurous girls. Her debut series, The Adventures of Piratess Tilly, written in haiku and illustrated by Karen Watson, arose from a desire to fill a gap she noticed in libraries and bookstores, and it has since won awards and received praise from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. She later expanded this mission, with the support of a successful Kickstarter and published The Historical Heroines Coloring Book: Pioneering Women in Science from the 18th and 19th Centuries (White Wave Press, 2018)—celebrating thirty-one women who persevered in STEM fields despite societal barriers, with portraits by artist Kendra Shedenhelm.

Printmaking & Art

Coming out of the pandemic, she established her own printmaking studio and embraced Jungian coaching, merging her passions for creativity, psychology, and symbolism. This integration culminated in her most recent project, Animae: The Source (White Wave Press, 2025), a 48-card values-based deck designed to foster self-discovery, healing, and community connection. The original fine art collagraphs have been exhibited in two shows, Animae: the source (Illume Gallery, Spring 2025) and Alchemy in Print (Marblehead Arts Association, Summer 2025).

She served for several years on the board of directors for the Custom House Maritime Museum and remains an active participant in the local arts community. Expanding on her passion for empowering others, in 2025 she embarked on a new role as art curator of Illume Gallery within Illume Books in downtown Newburyport, Massachusetts.

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.