Elayne, a Baton Rouge native, is a romantic realist with a passion for capturing the beauty she sees in life. Her graceful paintings are done directly from life, realizing that nature is the best teacher. Her chosen medium is painting in oil but loves to work in pencil and enjoys gouache as well. Her forte is painting the still life in oil with her traditional landscapes coming in a close second. She finds endless still life compositions in her own kitchen, home and gardens. She is astounded with Louisiana landscapes, especially the ones that encompass the live oak. From the Southwest fields of wildflowers, to the Carolina hills and city scapes, to the magic of the Northeastern states in seasonal dress are where she finds her inspiration.
Her figure sketches keep her drawing skill sharp, and her sound compositions are attributed to learning from the old masters, Vermeer, Corot, Chardin, Constable, Peter Paul Rubens, and William Trost Richards, among others. She has painted for over 38 years and has studied with professional Arts in the Parks award winning artist Barrie Van Osdell. She has also studied with Carol Peebles and Auseklis Ozols of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts and won each of their Faculty Awards. She paints full time and teaches oil painting classes and workshops.
She is a member of Oil Painters of America, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, the Baton Rouge Art League and the New Orleans Art Association and an associate member of the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Club. She has won many award nationally and regionally. Her work is owned in private and corporate collections. She has had many one person shows and participated in many group shows. She is represented by the Elizabethan Gallery in Baton Rouge and the Monticello Gallery in Dallas, Texas. She has exhibited in New Orleans at the New Orleans School of Glass and also exhibits at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.
Elayne was recently juried into the Louisiana's Governor's Mansion Competition and her work was displayed there for 2 years and also exhibited at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. She participates in the invitational LSU School of Art Gallery in the Shaw Center and also the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts Miniature Invitational. She has also exhibited in the Zigler Museum, the Masur Museum, the Barnwell Museum of Art, the Woman's Hospital and the Baton Rouge Little Theater, among other establishments.
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