Ilsa Elford United Kingdom

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as a child just mixing colour brought endless amusement and no wall was safe from a crayon or felt tip. As a teenager my art was a place for hard feelings, as a young adult an income while travelling, no pavement safe with chalk around. As a mother my art began a new life of celebration in outdoor spaces, and reflecting on my children's world. Now the big picture is my subject. To see and reflect

I create paintings based around topics and make series of connected visual studies. I Don't feel that painting needs to be hung on a wall, framed and neet, though much of my work is like that because I love the prosses and learning in painting for painting sake too. My Paintings tell small stories like little poems. For a while now I have been exploring how to tell bigger, complex stories, through making more stuctural paintings and work sutuble for outdoors. This is a work in progress. My aim in this side of my work is to really understand my subject and reflect complex ideas in a way that is visually rich yet accesable to its audience.