Collection: Elisa M Lafuente

Elisa’s paintings merge the outside with what is felt inside, mixing external images with her feelings, dreams and memories.

Most recently her paintings are inspired by the landscapes of Northern England and Scotland, although the influence of her Mediterranean colours is still visible in her palette.

Elisa likes to spend her time in the landscapes she is painting, opening her senses to the environment, absorbing the changes in light, atmosphere, temperature and smell.  This whole experience is then mixed with her feelings, memories and dreams, creating the process of a new painting, without the fixed idea of where it will go. In a way it is a process of curiosity and discovery that began outside, merges with the inside and grows on the canvas. 

"I try to paint the open space of being conscious, but although I remain caught within concepts, painting is my way of breaking free from that confusion, being conscious of what fills space without becoming it."