About

Hello! I’m Elliot, and I’m a Canadian artist based in Calgary, Alberta. To date, I’ve been self-taught and practice oil painting. I was fortunate to receive instruction from the esteemed Montreal oil painter (and tattoo artist) Ian Stone in 2024. After this formative experience, I sought to establish a practice exploring identity through portraiture and expressive figurative and still life work. In addition to individual coursework at the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly ACAD), I’m pursuing a Certificate in Visual Design, specializing in Art Theory & Practice, at the University of Calgary.

Inspiration

Inspired by the great masters of the Renaissance and Dutch realism, my practice is influenced by contemporary portrait and realism artists, natural landscape beauty, and is informed by my experience as an amateur film photographer and blockprinter, with works published in Seities magazine.

Current work is inspired by the identities of friends, family, and acquaintances, and recent travels throughout Canada, Mexico, Spain, France and New Zealand.