where residue settles and traces remain... | 2026.
my work begins with fragments...
For more than five decades, m.f.elliott has developed an evolving practice in painting and mixed media, drawing on fragments of imagery, cultural pattern, memory and experience.
Recognizable images and unfamiliar forms meet within the work. Pattern, symbolism and material become points of entry, inviting recognition while resisting a single interpretation.
The paintings ask us to look again—to reconsider what we think we see and to find our own way into the work.
What begins as something familiar may become something else.