My paintings combine the outer world of natural phenomena with inner feelings and imagination. Water (deep seas/calm estuaries), wind (strong ocean gusts/light evening breezes), heat, cool, rain, sunlight, star skies, galaxies, cellular organisms, and the innumerable inexplicable energies of our world all inspire a sense of wonder in me.
Strength and power are contrasted with calmness and receptiveness by combining luminous atmosphere, broad strokes, and texture. With this abstract approach, I invite viewers to explore the energies and expressions of each painting from their own individual perspective. Enter and enjoy!
INSPIRATION : There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing—for the same reason that we stand hour after hour, gazing at the distant swell of the open ocean. There is something like an ancient wisdom encoded in our DNA that knows its point of origin as surely as a salmon knows its creek. But if the seas are our immediate source, the penultimate source is certainly the heavens…The spectacular truth is that the very atoms of your body were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless country sky, you feel some ineffable tugging at your innards. | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist
Elise Weinrich Geary grew up in Michigan and took classes at Cranbrook Academy of Art prior to attending Bennington College. Her initial focus on a career in art changed to science, leading to medical school at Medical University of South Carolina and a Dermatology residency at Duke Medical University. She opened a private practice in Durham, NC in 1982.
In 1993, Elise renewed her interest in art and began showing and selling her watercolors in various galleries in North Carolina until retiring from her full-time medical practice to move to Vero Beach, Florida in 2010.
Elise furthered her art education through study with nationally known artists Linda Daly Baker, Deborah Gooch, and Timothy Sanchez. She has also completed post-graduate work with a 1-year Art Mastery Immersion Program with noted artist and master teacher Marianne Mitchell. This has allowed her to move into a deeper realm of artistic expression through abstraction, creating paintings inspired by the connection between human spirit and nature. Her background in science has evolved into a respect for the mystical and unexplainable...and an exploration via her paintings into the unknown.
INSPIRATION : The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. | Albert Einstein
