Artist Bio

Elle is a Cambridge graduate and self-taught artist working in London.

After an eclectic career spanning Westminster politics, high profile PR, campaigning and clinical hypnotherapy, Elle returned full-time to her lifelong passion of creating art in 2022. Working mainly as a painter in acrylics and oils, she also dabbles in ceramics and fibre art, utilising whichever form feels most appropriate for her subject.

The cycle of seasons, womanhood, aging, vanity and protest are all themes that preoccupy Elle. Her often dream-like pieces offer glimpses of fleeting moments in time, bittersweet half-memories or whistful fantasies of paths not taken. Working regularly from photographs, including her own selfies, she is interested in interrogating whether there is innate value in the curating and recording of one’s own image, especially as women age, or if attempts to reclaim our power via this medium are inevitably corrupted by the aesthetic ideals of the digital world we all now inhabit.

Elle has a passion for colour, light and physical abstraction, and is drawn to water and mirrors for inspiration. Often using neon brights and geometric shapes to shatter, obscure or dazzle the viewer’s gaze, her pieces are immersive and enveloping, providing windows onto heightened worlds both real and imagined. Those liminal spaces where colourful inner lives meet harsh external realities, both in how we view the world and how we see ourselves, are of endless fascination to her.

Elle exhibited as part of the Art-C group show ‘Balance’ in London, August 2023, and Voting Schmoting at the Inky Fingers Gallery in March 2024. She will be at the Urban Art Fair in July 2024 and Roy’s Art Fair in September 2024.

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