A Girl with a Glass of Flowers Painting

Luna Elstir is an artist based in London. Her work brings together disparate types of art elements as well as varied segments of ethnology, symbolism, metaphysics and mythology. The resulting synthesis illuminates a certain timelessness. Emotional involvement gives way to aloofness. She builds a narrative using a restrained repertoire of forms; sometimes all that is left is a dark, bare interior entirely devoid of objects. Focusing on stillness she reduces or entirely eliminates movement not only in the represented subject, but in the treatment of the pictorial space. Space in her paintings is not illusory in the normal sense. Perspectival depth is reduced and the tension between different planes is removed. Lighting, which is neutral, further eliminates a sense of animation. In Luna’s painting there is often a discrete intrusion of supernatural.