Elisabeth is an architect, her freelance artwork started in 1980 with a playful series of investigations, as an archivist of space and place. It became clear that she could convey her measurements more accurately in language than in numbers. So she started writing. She wrote about House Islands; she made special tide tables in the Harbor of Zeebrugge. In the years that followed, her architectural short stories became even shorter, until they were a few notes/sketches of our presence in a large spatial complex. And since the lockdown, more ink drawings and paper maquettes have appeared, in support of, what she now calls, 'poetic measurements'.

Elisabeth received in 2006 'the Goldpen Prize' (Antwerp/Belgium), won the travel story competition in newspaper De Standaard, and the short story competition on the Belgium television VRT/Canvas. The 'Nieuwe Garde' (Amsterdam/Netherlands) supported her work with a mentorship. There were publications on Hardhoofd, in Gierik, a lecture for the Flemish Canon. She received the “Future Writers 2011-2012” award in Amsterdam with her book XS.
Karaat Publishers (Amsterdam/Netherlands) provided her 'Building Site Reports' with an ISBN number, 3:am magazine (London) published her work as 'poem brut'. She recently had exhibitions in Artmut Gallery in Mechelen (Belgium), in Rudolfstadt and Berlin (Germany) with a group of calculation-artists from Colorado-USA. There was an exhibition in Bonheiden (Belgium) with Romina Cristi-Olate, artist-architect based in Santiago de Chile about worldwide rooms, visited them online during Covid in Toronto, Yokohama, Bournemouth. Even in a homeless person's backpack house. Her fascination with places continues to develop every day.