The paintings of Elliot Twelvetrees are abstract visions, glimpses of interior landscapes, fragments of visual stories told with lush color fields as well as black and neutral monochromes, the mark making achieved with both standard and unconventional tools. Her art practice is informed by training in workshop courses at the Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain, while attending the University Complutense of Madrid, and by a subsequent career in decorative painting. She fuse classical and modern paint techniques to abstract and abstract-expressionist sensibilities creating an aesthetic that has been cultivated in countless museums, libraries, natural landscapes, and city cafes. “When I compose and make a painting I am conjuring with color, gestural line, contemplation and memory: I want you to see vistas from the corner of your eye, remember a long lost poem, hear a distant melody, be enveloped by a subtle or powerful thought or mood.”