Paintings

The colours of South America are a crucial formal quality within Elemaria’s work. Using varied techniques, she achieves a kaleidoscopic effect.

With an emphasis on the spontaneous, Elemaria’s brushstrokes exhibit control of large areas, expressing the artist's emotion and focus on inner energy, and, sometimes contemplation. This creates expressive, lyrical and thoughtful qualities in the paintings.

Elemaria applies paint in a manner reminiscent of how she speaks - she mixes hues
in the same vein as she cooks, politically, passionately and with sensuous abandon.

Take pleasure in these powerful paintings.

The Breaking Through

This work represents a portrait of a relationship, inspired by a familiarity with
Ovid's Metamorphoses...

Ovid was a prolific Roman poet whose writing influenced Chaucer, Shakespeare,
Dante, and Milton, and contemporaneously, Elemaria.

As its title suggests, The Breaking Through is an exploration of transformations through the constant cycle of new relationships, and relationship is a vehicle for transformation ...

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