About the Work:

Elena Duff's paintings are suffused with energy, life and movement. Her work depicts semi-abstract shapes and forms; elements which mirror her fascination with the complexity of nature and the greater world around us. Duff is a painter who relishes in combining almost painfully complex detail with intensive colour and uses an obsessive process of building abstract forms and colours over one another.

These paintings are at once obsessive in their detail and joyful in their execution. Tendrils, limbs, organisms and branches are layered and entwined with one another, until they ultimately strangle and constrict. Stylistically they are inspired by modern graphic imagery; older equivalents such as illuminated manuscripts; crafts such as embroidery and tapestry that have for centuries been associated with women .

Elena Duff graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1995 and currently resides in Berlin