Archway Portals - 2025
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Gathering Migration- 2020
This series was a slower progression of paintings that with color and repetitive pattern. I used an abstracted approach in this series and drew on the color schemes and patterns from the Re-Constructing series. To insinuate time passing, I added stripes of color and darkened areas that allude to a crossing over of day into night and vice versa. While these go in no particular order, they represented more of the landscape I viewed and collected in my day to day life while living in Gilroy, CA. I would see many migrating bird populations, throughout the year, along the Uvas Creek wildlife preserve trail that was near our home. As this was during the pandemic and also a time where our family was considering moving closer to family, I was connecting to the migration of birds and added a v-shaped form in repeating patterns to represent them in my work.
30 Daily Paintings : September 2020
September has me feeling like I need some repeatable practices. These tiny worlds are pocket sized and transport you to a new landscape, for a moment or two at least. Small enough to sit on your desktop or on a wall. A magic portal that contains a vast landscape in a precious package.
Alone, Together -2019
Recently, due to the shelter in place orders, I am considering my own internal dialog of nature as a metaphor for the juxtaposition of where we find ourselves both alone and together. Clouds occupy the same sky and a single cloud is both one and many. Also included are galaxies, the night sky and islands, which illustrate the separateness we feel during this great pause but can also be seen through the lens of alone, together. In addition, I wanted these paintings to be small and intimate to reflect the spaces we are confined to during this time. Our homes are both holding us in but another perspective is we are gaining space from self-reflection, each other and the immediate world around us allowing a stronger connection to a larger picture of unity.
xo - Elissa
Re-Constructing Landscapes
2017
My 30 foot landscape documenting my personal memories of landscape begins with my first attachment to the land, a butte on my grandparents ranch in western South Dakota. Traveling through the landscapes that embedded themselves in my personal landscape along the way in my life’s journey thus far and ending with my (then) current home in California where I connected with the ocean-scapes in Big Sur during our first December in CA. The paintings also travel through the sunrise, daytime, a little storm and ending with sunset and night. Each painting measures 36 x 48 inches created using watercolor and collage on wood panel.
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Past works on canvas:
2012-2008
selections from 2008-2012, watercolor on canvas
works from my senior independent-study seminar: watercolor studies of
freeform landscapes re-constructed from torn and cut paper
The 100 Day Project is a daily creative practice challenge created by Lindsay Jean Thompson.
My project is 100 days of what if? I started the project while visiting the Southern Washington coast on an artist residency retreat at the Sou’wester Lodge.
Beginning was easy, I knew I wanted to create 2.5×3.5 card sized paintings in the polaroid style. Then I wanted something to write in the bottom area and the What if? came to me after I painted the first in the series.
These 4 were little departures from the original project layout.
#70 & #71 are two days in one painting, experimenting with the what if? question in a longer format with a panorama style. Size is twice one painting: 3.5 × 5 inches
#82 & #95 are also two days in one, which happened by accidentally painting 95 on the back of 82, thinking it was a blank piece of paper. Woops! 2.5×3.5 inches
2.5 × 3.5 inches approximately
Placed securely in a greeting card for shipment by regular post
signed and numbered
Painted with love and care I will do my very best to show you the painting as I see it. There may be changes depending on your screen settings. There are many paintings in this series with sparkling paint which can be difficult to photograph.