A woman, who has devoted her whole life to the colour green has revealed an insight into her home – in which everything glistens in emerald, jade and lime.
Elizabeth Sweetheart, 83, from New York, joined Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle on This Morning to speak about her passion for the colour on Wednesday.
Elizabeth, who is dubbed The Green Lady of Brooklyn, explained how her three-decade long obsession started saying the colour just makes her feel ‘happy.’
The artist said: ‘I think it’s because I love colour, I have worn a lot of colour through my life and green just seemed to be the happiest, it makes everyone happy and it’s easy to live with.
The OAP, who has over 400,000 followers on Instagram, added that her life is now ‘naturally green’ after years of living with the colour.
Elizabeth Sweetheart, 83, from New York, who has devoted her whole life to the colour green reveals her hair, nails, clothes and furniture are all green This Morning
In a video clip, which panned around her kitchen, Elizabeth had a green rug, chairs, muds, plant pots, utensils, cutting boards and saucepans.
The artist added: ‘I wake up in the morning and it’s very happy and pleasing, I make my coffee in a green coffee maker, my grinder is green, it’s just a green world.’
Speaking about how her obsession with the colour progressed over 25 years and it wasn’t ‘a deliberate choice’.’
Elizabeth, who is dubbed The Green Lady of Brooklyn, explained how her three-decade long obsession started saying the colour just makes her feel ‘happy’
The OAP, who has over 400,000 followers on Instagram, added that her life is now ‘naturally green’ after years of living with the colour
Speaking about how her obsession with the colour progressed over 25 years and it wasn’t ‘a deliberate choice’
Elizabeth said: ‘It just happened over 25 years, I think not even my partner new my life was really green until it was, it just crept up.’
She claimed her partner Robert enjoys it because they meet interesting people through her love for green.
She said: ‘People are wonderful, when they see me, they smile, they are happy and they love to take photos, they take selfies and we hug each other, it’s very positive.’
Speaking about her new internet stardom she said ‘it’s all very positive’ but ‘it hasn’t really affected’ her life.
Elizabeth revealed her mother is from Wales and she studied medicine in London where she met her father and they eventually relocated to Nova Scotia.
She was born Elizabeth Eaton in Nova Scotia and raised by her grandparents in a cabin near the Bay of Fundy, where her grandmother taught her to paint and make clothing.
In 1964, she hitchhiked to New York City to establish herself as an artist and found work creating prints in the garment industry.
