Georgia Elliott

Working from my garden studio in Buckinghamshire, England, I create expressive landscape paintings with energy and freedom at their core. I graduated with a BA(Hons) in Illustration from The University for the Creative Arts in Kent, in 2013. Over the last few years, I have built a loyal following of repeat visitors & buyers. My work has been collected widely across the UK, America & Australia, also been spotted in Good Housekeeping & InStyle magazines. I work with multiple UK galleries including; The Art Buyer (London), Ad Lib Gallery (London), & Cambridge Contemporary Art. I am currently preparing 40 paintings for my first solo show at Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery in Feb 2023.

When Georgia begins to intuitively pour paint onto canvas, the artist has no concept of the landscape she is creating. Rather, she is revelling in the release of automatic painting: creating from a place of freedom, throwing her whole body at the canvas. It’s only around 5 layers into the painting process when she begins to uncover land, water, and subtle signposts of a place once visited: a specific mountain in Iceland, the unmistakable bone-white cliffs of Seven Sisters. She gently and organically excavates this landscape, the memory blossoming like ink in water with each expressive stroke of the brush. 

The painting process is free from any kind of reference material, although Georgia’s process does begin in the landscape with loose sketches transcribing rough shapes and textures. Instead of using these sketches as deliberate starting points, they act as visual notebooks; not to be used as reference material, but rather to practice marks, to keep her eye in. 

Georgia begins a series with several blank canvases. By painting multiple pieces at once she encourages movement, transformation and energy. ‘With the beginning layers,’ Georgia says, ‘you’re painting with emotion. The day, the weather, what occurred before, all of this will influence the colours, the movement, the marks, which will then determine the mood and atmosphere.’ 

View a selection of Georgia’s works below ↓