Oh. My. I would love to spend a week or two vacationing in these abstract landscapes by UK based painter Elaine Jones. Not only is Elaine’s work beautiful, but so is both her inspiration and her process…

Inspiration: Elaine’s paintings embrace nature and through travel to remote, often uninhabited places she transports her viewer to wild and extreme climates. Organic shapes often provide a starting point to her work, the essence of which often focuses on the ethereal and the serene. Elaine often visits expanses that are devoid of humans, where expeditions to the glaciers of the Arctic and the rain and cloud forests of Costa Rica provide diverse contrast and subject matter.

Process: Paintings evolve a little bit like nature itself, structures are formed and then repeatedly broken down, changed, obliterated and then rebuilt. Paintings metamorphosis from layers of paint poured, scratched, brushed, pushed and rubbed out across the surface of the painting. Each painting takes on many forms until it meets its final resting place, a harmonious balance of chaos and order, serenity and movement, contrast and unity, space and colour.

Sigh.

ps. You can find more of her work via her gallery, First Contemporary in Bristol UK