These recent paintings show a time of transition for me during the last several years.  I moved
from Richmond, Virginia to the Nashville, Tennessee area.  The paintings are on canvas, panel, 
and paper.  They are autobiographical and strive to locate and hold memory.  Natural themes,
landscape spaces, abstract passages, and mark making are used.  Themes of loss are present
and some paintings try to capture the memory of loved ones.

The initial gestures of marks and colors become the kernel of the work and the painting
develops from there.  These are abstract works made of colored gestures, passages of brush
strokes, and divisions of form and space.  They happen over a period of time.  The landscape is
a container and a way to organize the work.  It is an internal and created landscape, not an
observed one.  I am looking for my response as I work with shape, mark, color, and texture.

The paintings happen in layers and go through several stages before they reach completion.
I look forward to the tension of working on paintings.  I want to understand what I am doing,
but have realized lately that true understanding comes with time.  I have several paintings
going at once so they can develop over time.  The painting becomes a record of what I am
experiencing personally as well as what is happening in the world.

Elaine Rogers, 2026