Elena Grace

Loss, absence and perception of emptiness in a space are at the forefront of my practice. I predominantly focus on the reminiscing and haunting aspect of associating a moment in time with an interior. Oil painting scenes with the use of photographs as reference, I explore the idea of absence of life/ time.

These rooms reflect on intimacy of the home and location-specific human attachments to past. I inform personal nostalgia into the way I make an impression of the subject of my painting, transforming it into a visual representation of a fragmented memory.