I stumbled on the work of Elise yesterday when I glanced at a rerun of “CBS Sunday Morning.” Elise Engler, who works and teaches in New York has been making small, narrative watercolor paintings for several years. In 2015, she first exhibited a series of her work in which she painted every block of Broadway over a year’s time. She even made several pieces at night! This work really appeals to me because for several years I have loved working in series and have made journey daybook pages documenting several physical journeys – across the state of Florida, across the US, and in Europe. I hope that you, too, will be inspired by Elise’s exciting work.
Check out an this article from The New Yorker and the video from CBS Sunday Morning. If you wish, you will be rewarded to surf the internet a bit.
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Thank you, Peggy, for introducing us to this most interesting artist. I hadn’t read that article in the New Yorker back in 2015 and really enjoyed it.
This is such inspiring work, and what challenging subject matter! Journals tell such wonderful stories..
Thanks for sharing this.