Eilis Crean

"Home" - charcoal, nature, trees, large drawing, clack and white

2023

"Spring Beauties" is an abstract landscape featuring hues of green, purple and blue. This work is framed in a simple white frame behind Museum Glass measuring 28 by 36 inches. Carlyle is inspired by the works of Claude Monet, Edouard Vuillard, Henri Matisse, Walter Inglis Anderson, Charles Burchfield, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Calder and Mary Delany. This piece is part of a collaborative series by Carlyle and her husband Thad Lee. This body of work was made in tandem, through painting and photography, that explores their mutual delight in the natural world and within their own marriage. Carlyle Wolfe’s paintings & works on paper are about an awareness of the natural world—becoming progressively, cyclically more present to its rhythms, gaining deeper understanding of its design, & acquiring direct experiential knowledge of its mysterious beauty. For the last 15 years, Wolfe has been making contour line drawings of plants form observation. From her drawings, she isolates silhouettes into paper stencils which she uses to create oil paintings & works on paper – or cut out of metal to make sculptures. Her work is cumulative in nature – gradually marking time & seasonal change, unity & variety, individual & collective beauty. Wolfe grew up in Canton, Mississippi, & earned a BFA in painting from the University of Mississippi & an MFA in painting & drawing from Louisiana State University. She has also studied in Cortona, Italy, & at the University of Georgia. Wolfe has exhibited work throughout the South, including Spalding...

This work on paper is a colorful abstract featuring hues of yellow and purple. It is framed without glass in a natural wood frame measuring 27 by 34 inches. The artwork and mat are ...

This work on paper is a colorful abstract featuring hues of yellow and purple. It is framed without glass in a natural wood frame measuring 27 by 34 inches. The artwork and mat are ...

This work on paper is a colorful abstract featuring hues of yellow and purple. It is framed without glass in a natural wood frame measuring 27 by 34 inches. The artwork and mat are coated and varnished. Eilis Crean is inspired by the works of Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Evie Hone...

This work on paper is a colorful abstract featuring hues of red, green (citron), black and pink. It is framed without glass in a natural wood frame measuring 27 by 34 inches. The ar...

This work on paper is a colorful abstract featuring hues of purple, red, and black. It is framed without glass in a natural wood frame measuring 27 by 34 inches. The artwork and mat are coated and varnished. Eilis Crean...

This captivating artwork is a weaving that beautifully captures the essence of flight, embodying the graceful movement of a bird in motion. Through a skilful interplay of vibrant hue...

This unique artwork is created through interweaving and twisting strips of painted fabriano paper in order to create a complex composition with depth and texture. The artwork is fram...

The artwork is framed and floated to the backboard. The dimensions of 44 x 50 cm are that of the artwork only, excluding the size of the frame.

This unique artwork is created through interweaving strips of painted fabriano paper in order to create a complex composition with depth and texture. The artwork comes framed in a bo...

The artwork is framed and floated to the backboard. The dimensions of 44 x 50 cm are that of the artwork only, excluding the size of the frame.

This unique artwork is created through interweaving and twisting strips of painted brown paper in order to create a complex composition with depth and texture. The works relate conce...