Elizabeth Shanahan
Mixed Media
Studio L3-1
Elizabeth Shanahan creates mixed media paintings that reveal a deep sense of love and belonging through abstracted representations of traditional content, including landscape, still life, and figure. A sufferer of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Shanahan required more rest than others as a child to keep her pain levels manageable. This led to many long afternoons spent in nearly complete stillness in the woods around her home, quietly observing. She credits these sessions of “seeing” for the development of her core belief system: that every small happening causes deep and irrevocable changes that, over time, transform the world over and over again.
Web : https://www.elizabethshanahan.com
Instagram: @elizabeth.shananan
Dimensions - 30"x40"
Where I Can Find You explores the complex relationships between the material and spiritual worlds, the ways humans as spiritual beings connect to each other, and the way those connections live on when we're apart. This piece is an acrylic abstract landscape with hand embroidery.
Dimensions - 11"x14"
Sunset, Moonrise is a painting of the liminal space between day and night. Using heavy, textural brushstrokes, light flares on the horizon among fluffy clouds and glimmering water. This is an acrylic painting on a cradled wood panel.
Dimensions - 11"x14"
Inspired by time spent outdoors with family, Windowpanes is a meditation in nature. Light puddles among abstract trees, inviting the viewer to slow down and look twice. This is an acrylic painting on a cradled wood panel.
Dimensions - 11"x14"
Trembling Waters is a celebration of light as it flares and puddles on a colorful waterway. Heavy, textural brushstrokes encourage the viewer to lean in and look closely. This is an acrylic painting on a cradled wood panel.