Kirsten Elswood Clouds over Trees

Kirsten Elswood Artist Statement for her first solo show

WILDWOOD

I think that through concentrating on framing a landscape or still life when painting, you experience the world more clearly and more infinitely. Exploring the forest and all its beauty for Wildwood has meant I have immersed myself in its palette, shadows and scent through the seasons. Light has become a pre-occupation in this work. When examining how light affects a landscape, places and objects can shed their identity to become subjects seen only through the prism of light. Light shapes and re-shapes all that it touches—creating contrast, harmony, and structure, imposing its own quiet logic. To capture that in paint, can, hopefully, turn the act of seeing and discovery into something which holds more than visual information. It becomes the true focus, the central presence within the work and communicates more than one might otherwise see

Education

Jason Walker RP - Portrait course 2022-2023

Newlyn School of Art - Professional Landscape 2022-2023

Newlyn School of Art - Defining Practice 2018-2019

Exeter College, Exeter, Devon — FdA Fine Art (Distinction) 2010-2012