Elizabeth Sullivan Fine Art

Artist Elizabeth Sullivan has been painting since childhood

, but didn't find her chosen medium until 10 years ago. The event that sparked the start of her experimentation with watercolors was a move into a small apartment with no room for sculpture, oil painting or fabric dying.

The studio apartment is gone, in it's place a house in Elign, Texas with a large studio for artwork. Ms. Sullivan's artwork is now recognized around the world. Her watercolors appear on greeting cards, area rugs, coasters, etc., and art prints published in Sweden are distributed in Europe and the US.

Sullivan acknowledges that one of her inspirations is cave paintings and pictographs and the vibrant hues of the southwest. She uses an interesting technique to achieve the yellows, reds, oranges, browns and turquoise, which used a characteristic of watercolor, but is not an ordinary watercolor technique. Watercolors are transparent - so by layering one color on top of another in several stages, brilliant color pops off the page.

In speaking of another feature of the medium of watercolor, Ms. Sullivan says, "Letting the paint flow is an important aspect of watercolor, but it takes some practice to get the paint to flow where you want it to flow." Certainly she has mastered that technique.

"I used to paint a lot more realistically," Sullivan remarks, "but what I really wanted to express was the graceful and powerful motion of the animals, so as time passes my paintings become more and more ethereal in that expression." The horses and the buffalo in Ms. Sullivan's work flow across the paper, running for the joy of running.

She catches other animal motion, too. The armadillo mama with her four babies waddles along searching for someone's garden to root around in. The horned lizards circle each other, deciding their next moves.

The paintings communicate a vision of the southwest from a painter with obvious affinity for the subject. The artist has been around horses all her life and if you live in Texas, armadillos will root around in your garden - it's a given. Painting horned lizards is a more recent experiment, but after a patron expressed his interest in them, the artist recalled her childhood fascination with them. Since her first horned lizard painting, Sullivan has met many and various horned lizard enthusiasts - from conservationists working to restore the little beasts to their natural range (they have been decimated by fire ants) to people who just fondly recall having a "horny toad" as a childhood pet (for a few days only since moms were usually not fond of them).

These days you may find artist Elizabeth Sullivan in her studio working on a commissioned painting (with her four cats for company) or on a ladder painting a new mural for the opening of a restaurant. That is, when she isn't at a gallery or weekend art show.

Visit her website www.ecsullivan.com and feel free to contact her by email at ecsullivan@aol.com

by: Penny Logan

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