Skylines & Cityscapes

I like water towers, the ones on top of buildings, says Elinor. I like how the tops of buildings look together.

Elinor’s Israeli and creates impressionistic illustrations of skylines and cityscapes. She uses thick lines of black ink or paint that appear more embossed than painted on the medium, which includes “recycled,” slabs of wood and canvas swatches. The images are not so much depicted by lines but seem to have been dripped into being.

I don’t know why I like the water towers. They're on the old buildings, you don’t see them on new buildings. I want to capture them before they’re gone.

Some of the paintings have impressions of elevated trains, attenas, circles for the sun – setting or rising? – the city contains buildings, the buildings contain life. All seen through a window, the window of her perception.

Someday all the old buildings will be gone, she says. Then the water towers will no longer be in the skyline.

But they will still be in the idealized urban horizons captured with nostalgic melancholy in her art.

She’s based in Brooklyn, shows her work in Union Square. Frist time at Creative Grove in Jersey City. She also had a gallery class canvas study of Morton Salt. When it rains it pours, girl in raincoat holding umbrella. She said she became fascinated with the girl, considers this her more mainstream work.

Here’s her website – elinorstudio.webs.com