Rendezvous!
Meeting artists in their creative spaces.
As August comes to a close, it’s time to wrap up the month with a visit to an Artist. Part of my work is photographing portraits of artists in their studios. Painters, sculptors, dancers, musicians, writers, designers, chefs, actors…
I love photographing creatives, building a visual of our ever-evolving Contemporary Art Scene. I’ll feature an Artist each month with you here, if you would like to nominate an artist for me to visit, let me know.
Off we go…
Eleanor Cox works across sound, film, writing and painting. Completing her BA in Fine Art this year at Central Saint Martins, Eleanor made works led by a steady research into ideas of What it is to Not Understand, or to be Left Without Certainty.
Inspired by unrecognisable soundscapes that leave you to “dream into their possibilities”, Eleanor’s oil paintings contemplate what can be seen in darkness: what shapes, colours and imaginings happen in the gloom…
EC: To think of inside & outside as it relates to both the literal interior space; and what is within or outside of understanding…
EC: Windows are empty of light and view, objects sit unsettled, while rooms lie empty as if anticipating or recovering from something no longer there. [The paintings] are following a sense that there is something kind within the unknown.
The unease felt when not ‘knowing’, is an opening that might allow for a reconsideration, a reorientation…
EC: As a body tries to orient itself in the dark, a silence brims with ingrained assumptions, now unravelling into searching questions.
Eleanor will be exhibiting some of her paintings this Autumn; keep up to date on this via instagram. To invest in Eleanor’s work, see her available pieces to purchase.
A little note from me..
If you or someone you know would like to book a Portrait Session, please contact me. I’d love to discuss ideas with you.
Oh wow this is such a beautiful piece Elle, very well captured in pictures as well as words. I love the way you have displayed the images on a photo book with strings and tape!! That makes it more authentic, like I’m there in your studio looking at a photo book.