Elise Swopes is a self-taught iPhone artist and Adobe Senior Evangelist from Chicago.

For over a decade, she’s been making surreal composites, giraffes in cityscapes, and nature crashing into architecture, all shot and edited on her phone. She’s the founder of Sunrise Art Club and Night on the Yard, hosts Creative Connection Live, has sold work through Sotheby’s, and has partnered with brands like Apple and Adobe to help other creators find their footing in digital art.