Painter, draughtsman and ceramist, born and brought up in rural Aberdeenshire, where the open, ever-changing landscape was a powerful influence on her richly coloured and gestural pictures. Graduated from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, in 1986, showing in same year at the RSA. She moved to London in 1987, undertaking a part-time degree in ceramics at Middlesex University, 1990–5, but completed this “a very frustrated painter, and immediately set up studio in Finsbury Park” with the porcelain maker Sue Paraskeva, with whom she shared a show at Heifer Gallery in 2002. Returned to painting in 1995, a family cottage in Suffolk and the west coast of Scotland providing some of the non-Aberdeenshire subjects for the Heifer exhibition. Elrick also showed with the UA, at the Westminster Open, had two solo shows in the Stoke Newington Festival and in 1998 was part of Deep Frieze, a travelling exhibition to Greenland which later toured to Scotland.