Painter of landscapes, portraits, and figure pictures of a rather twee type, showing some Japanese influence, born in Dundee and educated at Morgan Academy. When her father, a butcher, was made bankrupt and left for America, the family moved to Glasgow, Elizabeth designed for the woven fabric maker Joseph M Saddler, and enrolled as a commercial colourist at Glasgow School of Art, 1906–17, teachers including Maurice Greiffenhagen. A period teaching at Glasgow High School for Girls proved uncongenial, so Watt became a freelance artist. In 1919 she was made a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, and embarked on a lifetime of steadily successful exhibiting, sometimes with Kate Wylie, also showing at the Royal Glasgow Institute for the Fine Arts and RSA.