This painting is part of a series that explores quieter elements of music combined with thoughts about fluidity and colors found in nature.
The drawn and painted vertical lines strum beneath the broader breathing bands of washed color.
Narrower ink lines are sharper gestural marks that allow the horizontal to form a depth within the piece which contains the firmer verticals.
Elizabeth Gourlay is an American abstract artist whose work emerges from a progressive process of layering colour, lines and forms, informed both by inner emotional states and her observation of nature and architecture. She lives and works in Chester (CT).