Claire Alta Elliott
Recent Paintings
Recent Paintings
Paintings completed between 2008 and 2011.
In my painting, I study of the effects of mood andmemory on the perception of color, light and space. My work explores memory:how it functions, shifts and blends. I work in slow layers, editing, blurringand inventing my record of the past. Each time we access a memory it isrecreated in order to be available in the future; my process is a meditation onthat principle. My probing of personal experience combines with my techniqueand process. Layering colors, building drips and defining lines are my physicalmeans of analyzing memory through repetition. The places and events I depictare suspended in the fantasy of my own memory- separated by time, space andperception from reality. I hope for viewers to enter the mood and scene of apainting; to consider my memory and align it with one of their own.
Backyard Oak
Oil on Canvas
Arroyo
February 2009
Oil on Canvas
Winter Field
March 2009
Oil on Wood Panel
Volcano View, Santorini
April 2009
Oil on Wood Panel
Urban Cloud Formation
August 2009
Oil on Canvas
Dusk, San Remo
October 2009
Oil on Canvas
Horn Head
December 2009
Oil on Canvas
Garden Path
March 2010
Oil on Wood Panel
Boulevard du Chateau
June 2010
Oil on Canvas
Untitled Series
June 2010
Oil on Wood Panel
Riverview, Taos
June 2010
Oil on Canvas
Capezzana Sun
September 2010
Oil on Wood Panel
Beach View, Atlantic
December 2010
Oil on Canvas
Dusk Hills
January 2011
Oil on Wood Panel
Color Study Series: Leaves
December 2010
Oil on Wood Panel
Sea Cave Entrance
January 2011
Oil on Wood Panel
Back Garden
October 2010
Oil on Wood Panel
Wheatfield, St. Rémy
March 2011
Oil on Canvas
Color Study Series: Provence
April 2011
Oil on Wood Panel
Rose Garden, Wister St
May 2011
Oil on Canvas
Shoreview
May 2011
Oil on Wood Panel
Place des Vosges
May 2011
Oil on Wood Panel
Glenveagh
May 2011
Oil on Canvas
Walden Pond
May 2011
Oil on Canvas
