who is neon glittery?

neon glittery is the moniker of elizabeth ashley arnold who spent her earliest years creating art and roaming around europe. her vast portfolio exists here, in online archives, in film photographs, in recordings, in chapbooks, in children’s books, on clothing, and on walls. she studied fine arts and creative writing in college and began freelancing c. 2010. she uses a variety of methods to create art and has received years of commissions in different mediums. she primarily experiments in the visual arts including but not limited to illustration, screenprinting, film photography, painting, graphic design, and visual poetry. she also writes dreamy ethereal music through a background in classical piano with a preference for baroque, that she mixes with electronic music. sometimes, she uses tape to make drone sounds on her casio. she developed her recognizable, vivid illustration style through years of dedicated practice. during 2012-2020, she resided in fayetteville, arkansas, illustrating three children’s books by two local authors, and booked and performed many shows in the DIY scene. with her two, layered vintage casio keyboards, and a german synthesizer, she plays an experimental, lo-fi genre of music which she calls dreamwave and bedroom space-pop. she is not limited to one genre: she likes to switch up the sound vibes. in the autumn of 2020, the multidisciplinary artist started a new chapter of life as an art educator, by moving to the capital of the mississippi delta, memphis, tennessee.