Eloise lives in Virginia Beach with her family. Her background includes a creative career as an advertising designer at the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC for over a decade. She also taught as an art Adjunct at TCC’s Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, Virginia for ten years. Now, she teaches both live and online art workshops. Eloise’s work is in both public and private collections.
Her academic background includes a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, a studio arts degree from Tidewater Community College at the Visual Arts Center, as well as study with many well-regarded contemporary artists.
Eloise’s abstract works are influenced by themes of home, transition, and memory. Eloise’s fascination with the transient nature of time and how we relate to place and each other, are the psychological underpinnings of her art. She has chronicled the decay of urban and country landscapes in her personal photography which influences her paintings.
Oil paintings with cold wax, encaustic, acrylic and mixed media, collage, as well as print making, are all mediums Eloise enjoys. However, she is best known for encaustic and oil & cold wax paintings. She likes experimenting with mixing mediums creating mystery through layering and both adding, scraping and covering up.
