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Ken Elliott

Teaches at Ken Elliott Fine Art

My focus is the landscape and its rich store of ideas and inspiration. I am compelled to work from the trees, skies, lakes and streams in their endless variations. I don’t try to recreate nature (even Monet said he never got it right) or attempt storytelling. Instead, the works are simplifications and exaggerations of nature. There was a time when I felt the tyranny of the landscape. That is, I felt limited by making pictures of a place. Now, instead of making pictures, I am free to make paintings - art that comes from nature but is far more reliant on the strategies of making good art objects.

Tomorrow in the studio, perhaps new oils and pastels will emerge and come to completion and next week, perhaps another date at the printer. The fun of it all is that sometimes the pastels become new oils, oils become slightly different prints, prints become entirely new oils. All of nature is altered, perfected, abstracted. When you run out of variations to an idea, you can go back to nature where all the ideas and colors for a lifetime are always waiting.

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