Elisaveta Konsulova was born on 4 December 1881 in Plovdiv, into an educated family. Her father Georgi Konsulov was a merchant and an important figure of the movement for national independence. She graduated from Sofia’s State Art School of drawing in 1902, as a student of the Czech painter Jaroslav Věšin (1860-1915). By the age of 24, she had married the diplomat Boris Vazov – brother of the writer Ivan Vazov – with whom she had three daughters. She specialised in portrait painting at the Academy of the Society of Women Artists in Munich from 1909 to 1910.

E. Konsulova-Vazova mainly created portraits of children, writers, theatre actors and intellectuals, along with floral still lifes. Her models were often family members and friends, as in In Front of the Fence (1926), At the Piano (1927), Portrait of Boris Vazov (1919) and Ivan Vazov in his Office (1920).
E. Konsulova-Vazova was a member of the Society of Artists in Bulgaria – successor to the Society for Supporting Art in Bulgaria – the first art society in Bulgaria. She participated in the Fourth Exhibition of the Lada Society of South Slavic Artists in Belgrade in 1912. She was the first woman artist to launch a solo exhibition in Bulgaria in 1919.
In the late 1920s she was one of the founders of a puppet theatre in Sofia, where she especially involved in the organisation of children shows. In her position as president of the Slavyanska Beseda Society’s (Slavic Talk), E. Konsulova-Vazova hosted the performances in their rooms. She was also the Bulgarian representative at the founding congress of UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette) in Prague in 1929.

She published articles on foreign artists in the Bulgarian magazine Hudozhnik [Artist, 1905-1909]. As she spoke six languages, she translated literary and critical works. The library series of Hudozhnik magazine issued the first part of the then topical History of Painting (Leipzig, 1900-1902) by Richard Muther, translated by E. Konsulova-Vazova, in 1907.
During the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), E. Konsulova-Vazova was a volunteer Samaritan. She worked in military hospitals and in the cholera epidemic zone. Her written memories from those weeks are appalling. Despite this traumatic experience, in the 1920s E. Konsulova-Vazova still showed preference for a touch of late Impressionism and Symbolism in her artworks – creating numerous still lifes with flowers, portraits set in interiors and en plein air — and in her articles.
She and her family lived in Prague from 1927 until 1933. She held solo exhibitions in Prague, Bratislava and Pilsen. On her return to Sofia, she began publishing Beseda [Talk; 1934-1940] – a magazine for educated women. It dealt with issues such as women’s participation in parliamentary elections, equal access to higher education, and the rationalization of household labour, as well as women artists’ exhibitions.

She passed away on 29 August 1965 in Sofia. Today E. Konsulova-Vazova’s artworks can be seen at the National Gallery and City Art Gallery in Sofia, in other public galleries in Bulgaria and private collections.