Monotype
Media Dimensions: 68 x 51 cm
Image Dimensions: 45 x 30 cm
Unique Work
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Elvira's subject is broadly landscape. Through her personal experience of wild places, gardens and edgelands she uses drawing to evoke a feeling about a place. She is interested in capturing a sense of the vitality of nature and a certain exhilaration of seeing and feeling through her handling of materials, working intuitively, exploring where painting and drawing meet. Concerns of weather, light and space recur in her work. She is drawn to juxtaposition and contrast. She hunts for subjects that resonate with her and somehow suggest a microcosm of our experience, and hint at the mysterious. Elvira’s recent work explores the dreamy in-between creative space that mono-printing provides where drawing, painting and printing collide in a play of intuition and surprise. This way of working allows for her interest in capturing light, atmosphere and energy on the sensitive surface of the plate. This recent series takes inspiration from a wild garden nestled in a valley, she explores colour & mark -making by layering monotype plates; using ghost printing techniques, cut out areas, as well sometimes combining with drypoint and collagraph to add and remove focus in places. Elvira completed The Drawing Year postgraduate scholarship at The Royal Drawing School in 2015 where she was awarded the Felix Robson Prize and taught on the Young Artist Programme. Shows include Critic’s Secret’s A Centenary Exhibition (chosen by the art critic Laura Gascoigne),Best of The Drawing Year at Christie’s King Street, The Lyn Painter Stainer Prize, The Contemporary Watercolour Prize, Beep Painting Prize and the Summer Exhibition at The Royal Academy London. In the last few years along side her own practice she co-founded Walden Arts, a community art space and print studio in Cardigan where she runs regular classes for adults, children and teenagers. Elvira’s work is held in both public and private collections including The Royal Collection, Moritz-Heyman collection and Dumfries House Estate.
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 68 x 51 cm
Image Dimensions: 45 x 30 cm
Unique Work
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £65.00.
Elvira's subject is broadly landscape. Through her personal experience of wild places, gardens and edgelands she uses drawing to evoke a feeling about a place. She is interested in capturing a sense of the vitality of nature and a certain exhilaration of seeing and feeling through her handling of materials, working intuitively, exploring where painting and drawing meet. Concerns of weather, light and space recur in her work. She is drawn to juxtaposition and contrast. She hunts for subjects that resonate with her and somehow suggest a microcosm of our experience, and hint at the mysterious. Elvira’s recent work explores the dreamy in-between creative space that mono-printing provides where drawing, painting and printing collide in a play of intuition and surprise. This way of working allows for her interest in capturing light, atmosphere and energy on the sensitive surface of the plate. This recent series takes inspiration from a wild garden nestled in a valley, she explores colour & mark -making by layering monotype plates; using ghost printing techniques, cut out areas, as well sometimes combining with drypoint and collagraph to add and remove focus in places. Elvira completed The Drawing Year postgraduate scholarship at The Royal Drawing School in 2015 where she was awarded the Felix Robson Prize and taught on the Young Artist Programme. Shows include Critic’s Secret’s A Centenary Exhibition (chosen by the art critic Laura Gascoigne),Best of The Drawing Year at Christie’s King Street, The Lyn Painter Stainer Prize, The Contemporary Watercolour Prize, Beep Painting Prize and the Summer Exhibition at The Royal Academy London. In the last few years along side her own practice she co-founded Walden Arts, a community art space and print studio in Cardigan where she runs regular classes for adults, children and teenagers. Elvira’s work is held in both public and private collections including The Royal Collection, Moritz-Heyman collection and Dumfries House Estate.
