Eleanor Wood
Artist Information
Born and brought up in London, Eleanor Wood studied at Hornsey School of Art, Winchester School of Art, and Chelsea College of Art. For many years she was based in Norfolk in Britain and now divides her time between studios in California and England.
“Eleanor Wood has skirted the periphery of Minimalism for her entire career, fine-tuning her obsessive, hypersensitive and exquisite miniature technique. In 2002 she moved from her native England to California, the displacement serving as catalyst for a body of work that demonstrates a departure from her previous practice, and which is distinct from Minimalist orthodoxy.”
David Olivant
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“The assertive color saturations are new to Wood’s previously monochrome repertoire. They are achieved through painting washes of watercolor onto the reverse side of absorbent paper. Waxed Japanese paper is then glued over the front surface as a barrier on top of which intricate layers of oil pastel are applied. The effect is one of finely calibrated pulsations of light and matter that mirror, on a microcosmic level, the tension between embedment in and flotation above the paper support of the central colored rectangles.
The work suggests that the universe, both internal and external, emerges and dissolves with respiratory regularity, and in this sense it is actually breathtaking.”
Categories: Artists, mixed media, painting
