Elizabeth Leary Strazzulla (b. 1970) graduated from Wheaton College (MA) and received her artistic training from Robert Scott Jackson and in Italy at the Charles H. Cecil Studios and the Florence Academy of Art. Strazzulla applies her background in classical art to the ordered randomness of nature as revealed in her favorite subject- sea shells. Mrs. Strazzulla is an accomplished musician, a champion horsewoman, award winning sculptor and oil painter.