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Elizabeth Rowley
"Prairie Afternoon"
Oil on paper
24 x 36 inches
2013
$1,200
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The landscape, for Elizabeth, is both the focus and conduit for emotional expression. Working
from small to large formats and from realism to abstraction, she creates spaces that are as much
about 'feeling' the landscape as they are about seeing it. She speaks of her work as "...a
collaboration between real landscape and my own emotional response to that landscape." She
looks into the natural world, its outer surface and its inner light, and its violence and its calm.
Elizabeth begins her process by visiting remote places that are sought out in the countryside.
These landscapes serve as spaces of mediation and fermentation for the creative process. Small
realistic works done on site become her inspiration for large abstract pieces created in the
studio. When working on site, she lays down paint extravagantly; buttery clouds float in
windblown skies as grasses bend to the palette knife. Elizabeth can never use too much paint to
create the layers and textures of each work.
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Elizabeth Rowley
"Slough Creek"
Oil on paper
24 x 36 inches
2013
$1,200 |
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Elizabeth Rowley
"Prairie View, Stull, KS"
Oil on paper
24 x 36 inches
2012
$1,200 |
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