Elaine Duncan
Santa Fe, NM
Untitled Sand #25
Acrylic/Sand
48" x 36" x 2"
2016
$990
About
Elaine Duncan started painting in 2015 after a decades-long hiatus focused on family and careers as a book cover designer, gallery assistant, and art teacher. As an art student in NYC, she studied at NYU and the Art Students League in the 1970s, but has now returned full circle to her fascination with the creative expression of painting and dance. She currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.
Artist Statement
Painting is like a dance for me. I feel that I am a partner with the paint and the canvas. It is a physical act of rhythm, texture, surface and subsurface, always moving, always in flux. At the age of 60, I felt the need to embark on a new chapter in my life and that is when I started painting and dancing. I am deeply influenced by the spontaneous creativity of moving through space with my body. And essentially, I want the paint to move with as little interference from my cognitive, rational self as possible. This act of spontaneous “selflessness” is deeply gratifying and always a revelation. My process lately is to distill the action on the canvas to as few brushstrokes as possible. This intention is to capture the moment, the movement, the flow. I hold that every age and stage of life can be a revelation and an affirmation of selfhood. My influences include Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Howard Hodgkin, and Cy Twombly, to name just a few.
