ABOUT
Forrest Elliott is a contemporary painter exploring color relationships and how they are translated through the experience of seeing onto a two dimensional surface.
He received his B.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire with a minor in History. His work has been featured in Clover + Bee, Design*Sponge, and Studio Visit to name a few publications.
Forrest is represented by Blue Door Gallery, in York, Maine, Kennedy Gallery and Nahcotta in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
His work is held in extensive private collections throughout the United States and abroad, including, Balmain, NSW, Australia & Hong Kong, China.
He is currently a full-time artist working out of his studio in the historic Salmon Falls Mills in Rollinsford, New Hampshire.
STATEMENT
Painting challenges me to transcend the boundaries of my location and identity. I translate color relationships through observation and personal recollection in my work. Nuances of color and light are distilled to create essential forms, sometimes allowing the viewer to see just enough.
Observation, invention, and memory coalesce in my process. Each helps inform decisions I make when creating sensitive palettes, the quality of a shapes edge, or the compositional language of a painting. I revel in the notion that the electricity of a color or the sudden shift of the palette knife or brush across the canvas has the ability to alter our perception of reality. Painting, for me, is the act of translating the human experience of seeing onto a two dimensional surface.
Portrait by Bridget Williams
Studio Shot by Good Carma Photography