Holborn, Elaine

I have been a painter for almost 20 years, starting my journey when my children were young and we lived in Indonesia. I lived in Darlington, WA for a number of years and now reside in the south west corner of Australia.

I work from life and imagination, painting  in oils, using bold colours along with cold wax, sand or chalk, giving added texture and interest to my work. I layer the paint, I scrape back the paint, I carve into the paint surface.  My work is inspired by nature - the shapes, shadows, patinas, textures around me - skewing images to create a sense of what I see and feel.  It’s an intuitive process for me of colour and mark making.

The tools of my trade are many and varied from palette knives, to old credit cards, rags and pottery tools and even my fingers and hands. I work from my studio, a renovated 1930 railway carriage situated on a 5 acre block between Capel and Bunbury.