Portrait
by Elizabeth Forest

Completed on: 10 August 2009
Type: Painting
Genre: Portrait

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story.

My art is an expression and reflection on the human being and the environment that surounds one. I often consider how fragile the wall is that separates us, our skin, from the land. My paintings explore the part of our selves that overlap with our environment.

dedication.

In this portrait, a woman sits on a ladder in my mind, illuminated by light. She is faceless, because she represents not one specific person, but the many women, the many heros that walk among us. During the month before my second grandfather's death I painted a number of portraits. Not long afterwards I was able to revisit them and this one in particular. In many ways the emotions and experience of losing my grandfathers has been very present throughout my artistic development.