Ela Steel
Texas, USA

The strange and surreal creations of a Canadian artist living and working in Texas. You'll find new artwork, time lapse videos of paintings in progress, updates on shows, sales and possibly a life snippet or two.
Ela Steel: Art Blog. This is the integrated blog for elasteel.com. Make sure to check out the main site to see more artwork.



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About the Girl

I’m a large order of artist with a side of graphic designer and photographer.

I was born in Canada where I spent my post-secondary career in a Fine Arts building in the Ontario snowbelt. I have since abandoned the frosty North to live as an expat artist-girl in an absurdly hot and humid coastal climate. I plan still to live in blistering, arid heat, and in bone-chilling dreary dampness.

I don’t believe moderation is best.

 

About the Work

My paintings have evolved into a mainly stream of consciousness outpouring with surrealist influences. You could take that to mean I have no idea what I mean, or you could take it to mean I let my work guide me. Either way, only during the process of fully developing the work alongside my internal dialogue do I begin to see what I might be telling myself, or others.

 

My work is part automatism, and part reflection. As such, you’re probably going to take away something completely different than what I see. I prefer it this way. I won’t hold your hand through my paintings. I’d love to hear what you think, without a single worry in your head about being ‘wrong.’ You’re not wrong. Your feet aren’t where mine are and I don’t expect you to pretend that’s the case.

 

 

About the Blog

 

Well, this is the easy part then isn’t it? This blog is here to keep you up to date on my runnings around. You’ll find information about upcoming shows, events and sales. You’ll also get to see new work as it’s created.

 

widow I’ll be expanding the scope of this blog in the months to come. Previously I used it for major announcements only. The major announcements will still be here, and will be pushed through to my main site, elasteel.com. There will also be more frequent updates here on blog.elasteel.com for art and life meanderings, time lapse videos of my work in progress and little snippets here and there whenever I decide posting sounds like fun.

 

That’s it. The whole deal. So if you dig my art and you want to see more of my brain in process then stick around. And hey, give me a little nudge out there on the web.. I’m everywhere you want to be and some places you don’t (*coughmyspace*)