ARTIST’S STATEMENT

" A lady who loves art and painting in oils, that's me, Elaine Davis. Of course, most artists say, 'They love art.' Yet, I think we each love it differently. For me, it is the complete freedom to express myself. The canvas is blank; the choice is mine. I embrace the adventure and fly with it.
My multicultural background fuels an intense passion to understand human relations, and how modern technology affects these relationships. On canvas, my expression takes form and lives in a way that I could never express in words. It is my soul on display."

PROFILE

Elaine Davis is a native San Diegan, a wife and mother of 4 with ages so disparate she feels she had 3 separate families in 1 marriage. Elaine attended 4 colleges with the major of human development, Los Angeles State College, Los Angeles City College, SDSU and Grossmont College. At Grossmont she took a variety of art courses.
Further art study continued with the Watts Atelier where Elaine studied figure drawing for 3 years. Following that, she took various classes at the Athenaeum under Ken Goldman, Reed Cardwell, Brian O'Conner, and others. In addition, she has taken a variety of workshops with Andrea Gaye, Elfred Lee, Denis Torzeski, Yumi, Merle Whitley, Stephanie Goldman, Andres Zapata, Jennifer Nilles and Creela Martin.
Elaine's work has been juried into many local shows such as the Canon Art Gallery Annual/Carlsbad, International Friendship Festival--3 years/El Cajon, Women's Caucus For The Arts/Poway Center for the Performing Arts, San Diego Art Institute, and shows at East County Art Association.
This past year, 2003, she was in three juried national shows, WCA Show at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida, Women of the American West Show in Dubois, Wyoming (part of the Jackson Hole Fall Festival), and The Fine Arts Institute at
The San Bernardino County Museum.
Elaine's work is in collections in Sacramento, CA, Chicago, IL, Dayton, Ohio, and Caracas, Venezuela, as well as the San Diego area. Elaine is a member of SD Art Institute, East County Art Association, and Women's Caucus for the Arts