A never-before-seen form of entertainment that will entertain and amaze an audience of any size.

While using both hands and multiple brushes, Elliott begins an explosive performance – throwing paint, challenging the audience, sometimes carefully painting red lips on the canvas, or rapidly making a blue and purple background to finish a painting.

Elliott’s paintings of famous rock icons, public figures, celebrities, and commissioned portraits are choreographed to a musical experience. The paintings are created on a 4 foot by 5 foot black canvas, taking the audience through an exciting musical journey, and finally creating a likeness of the subject in a matter of minutes.

Elliott has taken performance art and made it his own with a unique musical, visual and painting style, unveiling the energy and passion of his subjects. Elliott conveys one compelling message to his audiences -

“Everything is possible when you paint out of the box, especially with your hands!”
- Elliott From

International expressionist speed painter Elliott From of Artbeat Live brings a new look and feel to live performance painting. Elliott has gained world wide attention in February while performing his show at the 2010 Winter Olympics at the infamous Club Bud parties by Budweiser. Also this past year in January two of his paintings raised a total of $23,000 for the Epilepsy Foundation of Atlanta. And in May of 2010 Artbeat Live! raised over $30K to help raise money for CAPE during the celebraiton of the 125 year anniversary of Cretors in Chicago.

Elliott was born and raised in the Chicago area and his artwork is owned by famous Chicago legends such as Mike Ditka, and Alfonso Soriano. Hotel Intercontinental Ohare has three of his original pieces in their private collection, as well as the Chicago Police Department proudly displays a painting he created of the Chicago police badge. WGN Radio owns 4 Artbeat Live! sports paintings that hang on their corporate walls at the WGN radio station.

In 2010 Artbeat Live! performed at the first playoff game of the Chicago Blackhawks in which two of his paintings raised several thousands of dollars for Blackhawk Charities. During the Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup win, Elliott appeared on the WGN and CBS news, as well as painting an 11 foot by 10 foot mural on the outside windows of WGN Rado 720 Studios.

Elliott creates every canvas with explosive brush strokes, vivid colors and creates an expressionistic style painting only known as an original Artbeat Live painting.

Please enjoy Artbeat Live, the explosion of music and color.