Artist’s Statement:

“Eleanor graduated in Fashion Design from Edinburgh College of Art and has pursued a career within the Costume department for Film and TV. In latter years she has moved to Dorset with her family and immersed herself in the stunning vistas of the Purbeck landscape which have become a huge inspiration to her art practice.

Eleanor chooses to make most of her initial studies ‘en plein air’ enjoying the energetic, immediate and visceral quality it brings to her drawings. Her work evokes the richness of the Dorset scenery through dynamic, gestural marks, a response to the landscape’s shifting moods and textures, a visual dialogue between the land and her perception of it. She often explores the use of white space, allowing the landscape to appear like an explosion out of the frame, inviting the viewer to use their imagination and personal emotional response to interpret their vision of the landscape.”