Ger.A Elwood

Ger A. Elwood is an Irish emerging artist working from London/Ireland. She has worked in Advertising; as a Graphic Designer / Producer for TV, New Media /Print both in Ireland and London. She has closely aligned herself with the medium of painting finding it the most natural and free of any creative process. Attending Art Schools in NCAD (Dublin), West Dean (Sussex), Chelsea (London) she finds herself examining the many diverse landscapes she has experienced worldwide. As a result, one area of concentration has been abstracted compositions of rhythms, moods, memory and colour.

Working in oils, she sets out through the language of painting - line, colour, tone and brushwork, to bring about the sensorial experiences of coastal space. The paintings are an investigation how we place ourselves, physically, emotionally and intellectually in relation to these elemental forces.
Her striking seascapes hover between abstraction and figuration. The images themselves do not usually depict an actual place, but evolve from something observed, felt. The direct experience of the landscape, reactions to atmosphere are taken back by memory, drawings and colour recordings to the studio where the process of creating the finished canvas be...

Wandsworth Arts Week. 2007. Mall Galleries, London - UK ART for Youth 2007. Private Collections Ireland, UK, Russia and USA. The Private Collector Galleries, Kinsale, Ireland. 2005-07 Interior Living. Cork. Ireland. 2006/7Gallery twenty-four Berlin 2007. Mall Galleries 08,
Wimbleon Art Studios 07/08.
Art Interview International Competition Silver Medal Winner 2006., Norfolk Open studios 2009/10/11.
Wolerton Hall. 2010
Bayer Elements show at The Forum Norwich - runner up
Reef House Private show - March 2011
Halesworth Surrey May 2011
Assembly House Norwich August 2011
The Flint Gallery - Norfolk.
Elwood Art Blakney ongoing