When I was in Santa Fe, I was exploring the plaza area and walked by the Evoke Contemporary Gallery and was stopped dead in tracks by the most amazing paintings. They are the paintings of Louisa Mcelwain. When it comes to art, I have discovered that I really like landscapes rather that paintings of people, and these paintings are everything I love in a painting! Color, movement, and Louisa truly captures the enchanting drama that we have in New Mexico! She paints plein Air from the back of a rigged up pick up, that supports her huge canvas'. The paint is so thick, that her signatures are not written, they are carved!
When I moved to New Mexico from California, the one thing I did miss is the ocean. Growing up on the beach and having the ocean as your backyard, the sea becomes a part of you. But I often think of the huge sky of New Mexico as kind of a replacement for the ocean. Always changing and in constant motion.
Louisa's tool of choice is the knife to "curb my ability to describe objects, and to move paint with velocity, articulate delicacy, and sensuous impasto. I strive to allow the beauty of the paint, moved by the impulse of the Creator's spirit which flows through me, to say something honest, deep and true about my experience of Nature, to make paintings that gratify the mind and nourish the soul." Yeah, nuf said....enjoy
Sorry for the blurry one, but I love the colors!
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