Born in the north-east in 1963, Elaine initially lived in the Durham Dales before moving to Dorset in 1997. In 2004 she returned closer to her northern roots with a move to Beverley in East Yorkshire, & concentrated full-time on art. After a period of exhibiting and selling textiles, her work developed into collaged pieces, which are a fusion of paint and stitch, and more recently into acrylic and mixed media.
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Elaine trained as a textile designer initially at Newcastle & subsequently took a degree course at Edinburgh College of Art where she won the Andrew Grant scholarship in 1982. During this time she developed a love of colour & texture, both of which have featured strongly in her work since then.
Over the years of raising a family, teaching art in schools, running art workshops and exhibiting my work in commercial galleries, I have found that painting is my medium of preference. I have been selling my work commercially for the last twenty years and have shown work in national exhibitions.
Whilst living in Beverley Elaine ran art workshops for children & used her love of colour & texture to paint the things she loves – the empty beaches and crumbling cliffs of Holderness, the sea, pebbles on the sand, etc. She admires the naïve quality of children’s painting, & often strives to capture this sense of simplicity & brightness in her work.
Then in 2009 Elaine & her family fulfilled their dream to move to a smallholding in Cornwall, where she embarked on a series of paintings inspired by her new surroundings, although still keeping contact with her galleries in Yorkshire.
She greatly enjoys still-life work, painting simple objects from her home. These are treasured things which are colourful, patterned & often very ordinary but nevertheless beautiful – bright flowers crammed into a jug, teapots and fruit in a bowl. Things which make her smile & which she hopes will make others smile.
Elaine works mostly in acrylics, using colour in a bold, free way. She likes to paint quickly & spontaneously, which gives the work its freshness & vitality. After the initial painting is made she often returns to it, over-painting again & again, adding layers of colour, & scratching back through the surface to reveal hidden marks & textures below.
Since moving to Cornwall she has had work accepted by the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Bristol & been invited to apply for membership, a great accolade. She has also shown with Cornwall Open Studios & at Battersea Affordable Art Fair, represented by Bowlish Contemporary.
Elaine Turnbull
Born in the north-east in 1963, Elaine initially lived in the Durham Dales before moving to Dorset in 1997. In 2004 she returned closer to her northern roots with a move to Beverley in East Yorkshire, & concentrated full-time on art. After a period of exhibiting and selling textiles, her work developed into collaged pieces, which are a fusion of paint and stitch, and more recently into acrylic and mixed media.
Read full bio
Elaine trained as a textile designer initially at Newcastle & subsequently took a degree course at Edinburgh College of Art where she won the Andrew Grant scholarship in 1982. During this time she developed a love of colour & texture, both of which have featured strongly in her work since then.
Over the years of raising a family, teaching art in schools, running art workshops and exhibiting my work in commercial galleries, I have found that painting is my medium of preference. I have been selling my work commercially for the last twenty years and have shown work in national exhibitions.
Whilst living in Beverley Elaine ran art workshops for children & used her love of colour & texture to paint the things she loves – the empty beaches and crumbling cliffs of Holderness, the sea, pebbles on the sand, etc. She admires the naïve quality of children’s painting, & often strives to capture this sense of simplicity & brightness in her work.
Then in 2009 Elaine & her family fulfilled their dream to move to a smallholding in Cornwall, where she embarked on a series of paintings inspired by her new surroundings, although still keeping contact with her galleries in Yorkshire.
She greatly enjoys still-life work, painting simple objects from her home. These are treasured things which are colourful, patterned & often very ordinary but nevertheless beautiful – bright flowers crammed into a jug, teapots and fruit in a bowl. Things which make her smile & which she hopes will make others smile.
Elaine works mostly in acrylics, using colour in a bold, free way. She likes to paint quickly & spontaneously, which gives the work its freshness & vitality. After the initial painting is made she often returns to it, over-painting again & again, adding layers of colour, & scratching back through the surface to reveal hidden marks & textures below.
Since moving to Cornwall she has had work accepted by the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Bristol & been invited to apply for membership, a great accolade. She has also shown with Cornwall Open Studios & at Battersea Affordable Art Fair, represented by Bowlish Contemporary.
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