Painter and illustrator, notable as a fluent watercolourist, born in Dartford, Kent, as Edith Elizabeth Brier, which she used to illustrate books published by Blackie, Nelson and Oxford University Press. Her mother, born Victoria Carruthers, was an illustrator of children’s books. When Elizabeth Scott-Moore’s husband died in 1947 she changed to painting. She had trained under Edmund J Sullivan at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art in the 1920s, also attending the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In 1957 she was chosen as one of Jack Beddington’s Young Artists of Promise, in the book of that title. Showed at RA Summer Exhibitions and RP; RI, RWS and NEAC, all of which she was a member; and Paris Salon, where in 1962 her portrait of her artist friend Alfred Hayward won a Gold Medal.