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Elaine is an accomplished Sydney based contemporary artist who has travelled extensively. She moved from Melbourne to Sydney as a child and grew up in beautiful Hunter’s Hill, where her art career began upon receiving the ‘Highly Commended Junior Art Award’ several years in a row, in the Hunter’s Hill Junior Art Shows.
More recently, Elaine has studied a Visual Arts Diploma at the Northern Sydney Institute where she was awarded the ‘Painting Excellence Award’ and the ‘History & Theory Excellence Award’ upon graduation. She has also lived in Florence, Italy where she studied painting under an internationally acclaimed artist at SACI and has studied art through Federation University. Much motivation for Elaine has come from being an independent single woman her entire life – choosing to never marry, enjoying solitude and freedom. Elaine’s work has been exhibited and sold in many commercial and regional Galleries throughout New South Wales, including the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and New England Arts Museum, New South Wales. Her work has been privately commissioned numerous times and she has held highly successful solo exhibitions. |
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Artist Statement
I am a contemporary painter based in Sydney working mostly with landscapes, but my abstractions also evoke glimpses of a landscape. I work with mixed media, being combinations of acrylic paint, ink, charcoal, bitumen, shellac and encaustic wax. I use these mediums to create textured images of rugged terrains, vast open spaces and coastlines gleaned from recent and distant memory. At times I feel a certainty for what I wish to achieve before I begin and other times I just let the image talk to me as it unfolds.
Nature, open spaces, rambling terrains and coastal areas are my inspiration, whilst I like to suggest solitude or isolation. I am constantly inspired by the untamed beauty of nature. I like to push the limits of imagination and believe I leave a little of myself in all my work.
I make small sketchbook studies of nature as well as my feelings about the landscape and then return to the studio where I work them into semi-abstract images. Layers are built up gradually on the surface of each canvas or paper. I focus on capturing the energy and the spirit of the landscape. A gradual building of stratums often reveals something unexplained that evolves from within.
My work can suggest a meaning that may differ between viewers. My work being mostly devoid of human representation is a statement or a call for humanity to recognise the vast and dramatic natural world in which we, albeit small and insignificant, are the curators.
Elaine Foulsham
Artist
Nature, open spaces, rambling terrains and coastal areas are my inspiration, whilst I like to suggest solitude or isolation. I am constantly inspired by the untamed beauty of nature. I like to push the limits of imagination and believe I leave a little of myself in all my work.
I make small sketchbook studies of nature as well as my feelings about the landscape and then return to the studio where I work them into semi-abstract images. Layers are built up gradually on the surface of each canvas or paper. I focus on capturing the energy and the spirit of the landscape. A gradual building of stratums often reveals something unexplained that evolves from within.
My work can suggest a meaning that may differ between viewers. My work being mostly devoid of human representation is a statement or a call for humanity to recognise the vast and dramatic natural world in which we, albeit small and insignificant, are the curators.
Elaine Foulsham
Artist
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