Élisabeth Marier studied visual arts in Québec city. She currently lives and works in Montréal, sharing her time working at her studio and teaching at Espace VERRE. Since 1986, her glass sculptures are shown nationally and internationally. She has received many research and work grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and in 2004 received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to show her work in Troyes, France. This exhibition La puissance du verre dans l’art contemporain was composed of 30 artists from different countries. She creates private glass work commissions integrated to the environment and architecture.

In the early 80s, she helped create the educational infrastructure of the fine craft schools of Québec. Since 1988, she teaches kiln working, painting on glass at Espace VERRE.

Élisabeth Marier describes her work as ‘transforming material within an environment’. More specifically, she says, it has to do with the ‘metaphorical passage from one state of being to another during our journey through life’. Beginning simply with kiln-fused sheets of glass, Élisabeth Marier focuses upon change and transformation transmitting a certain artistic thought process – which we can acquire and bring into our own lives. If glass contains all forms and possibilities, it is conceivable that the same applies to our very own acts and existence.