Pepper's Field

Elston paints en plein air (in the outdoors, from life), but also uses sketches, photographs and video material to develop his paintings in the studio.  His work takes place within a modern tradition of figurative realism that began in the first half of the 19th Century.  The Realist believes that life and experience are a source of pleasure and joy, and the act of painting is both a meditation on and a savoring of life experience.