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Elizabeth Nelson
Green Oceanacrylic on yupo paper, 35 x 60 inches
Dryholaeyacrylic on paper, 24 x 20 inches
Fjord #4oil on panel, 20 x 20 inches
Water Spirit (Vatnsandur)acrylic on paper, 22 x 28 inches
Fjord #3oil on panel, 20 x 20 inches
Elizabeth Nelson: After a short visit to Iceland in 2012, I experienced an irresistible magnetic pull, a need to return for a longer time to paint what I saw and felt of the landscape and weather; to be a part of the life there.
Five years later I was able to go back to Iceland twice in 2017 and 2018 for a month’s residency at SĺM, (the Association of Icelandic Artists), an organization that supports a cultural exchange of visual artists with all countries of the world.
As a result of that experience of Iceland my painting became a collaboration. My process became open to the suggestions of the paint’s motion and interaction with the surface. Instead of me being the solitary maker, the paint and the surface had their say as well.
Each level of the painting simultaneously revealing and camouflaging, reflecting the changing weather of Iceland, or the changing stability of the earth underneath, or my deepening shifts of perception.
Five years later I was able to go back to Iceland twice in 2017 and 2018 for a month’s residency at SĺM, (the Association of Icelandic Artists), an organization that supports a cultural exchange of visual artists with all countries of the world.
As a result of that experience of Iceland my painting became a collaboration. My process became open to the suggestions of the paint’s motion and interaction with the surface. Instead of me being the solitary maker, the paint and the surface had their say as well.
Each level of the painting simultaneously revealing and camouflaging, reflecting the changing weather of Iceland, or the changing stability of the earth underneath, or my deepening shifts of perception.