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"Stull Kansas Afternoon"
Oil on paper
8 x 12 inches
2011
$450 (framed) |
To Elizabeth the artist, the landscape is both a focus and a conduit for emotional expression. Working in small to large formats and in styles from realism to abstraction, she creates spaces in her paintings that are as much about 'feeling' the landscape as they are about seeing it. Elizabeth speaks of her work as "...a collaboration between real landscape and my own emotional response to that landscape." She looks into the natural world and sees its outer surface and its inner light, and its violence and its calm.
Elizabeth begins her process by visiting remote places, which she has searched out in wanderings across the countryside. These landscapes serve as spaces of meditation and fermentation for her creative process. Working on site, she lays down paint extravagantly; buttery clouds float in windblown skies as grasses bend to the palette knife. Small realistic works done on site become her inspiration for large abstract pieces created in the studio. However, there is never too much paint that could be used in her work to describe the layers and textures found in nature.
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"Autumn's Glory #2"
Oil on paper
8 x 12 inches
2011
$450 (framed) |
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"Open Prairie"
Oil on paper
8 x 12 inches
2011
$450 (framed) |
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