Selected Works

Elliott Green’s third solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, Lost Horizon, features large scale atmospheric oil paintings on linen. The exhibition is accompanied by a digital catalogue with an essay by Gary Brewer. 

In his most recent body of work, Elliott Green creates substantial landscape and “cloudscape” paintings, with a dream-like haze of hues that transport the viewer into sublime vistas. A range of marks and expressive gestures are applied through Green’s unique painterly methods: he makes and uses carved sponges, foam rollers, metal blades, and fleece. In the last case, he stretches the fabric over shaped plywood, loads it with creamy paint, and glides the tool over the surface to evoke naturally dimensional cloud forms. 

The works occupy a fluid spatial presence-mountains, clouds and atmosphere blend into each other seamlessly. Brewer describes the experience of Green’s paintings as “a deeply satisfying experience to be held between fictional space and the pure physicality of the medium.” 

These masterful compositions glow with an aura, as they’re composed over time and in layers to achieve a deep perspective. In a conversation with Brewer, Green says, “I try to give each cloud, mountain or landscape an individual quality. They are almost like animated characters. These cloud paintings first came to me in a dream; I feel that they are freeing me from the weight of the world.”