with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
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M. Elaine Twichell |
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Elaine began “taking pictures” before she
entered first grade. Her Dad was an avid photographer and she would
emulate him by capturing images in the vent window of their car as
she sat on her mothers lap driving down the road. It was several
years later, however when she picked up a real camera; a Kodak
Brownie. Childhood friends and animals were her favorite subject
matter . Today, nothing escapes her camera or brush. Moving into
painting was a natural progression for her. All of the principles of
design, lighting, and subject placement remain the same. “Paint lets
me assign color in a way that may not occur naturally; or at least
not the way the camera sees it.”
Elaine is an artist with few boundaries. She is excited by color, by
structure and form, by the play of light as it interacts with the
world around her. Elaine sees stories in everything, from the
weathered quilt on an old bed, to the challenging stare of a
visiting cat, or the reflections in the old window of a period home.
In looking more closely at the reflections, at the eyes, at the
arrangement of colors and folds of fabric she infects the viewer of
her work with her insatiable curiosity. |
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