Landscapes exist for me as shapes against their background environments. My eye is first drawn to this horizon line and then moves down into the shapes of the town. The towns and streets are left recognizable only by this horizon and the geometry within the town. The colors are often completely different from the true colors, roof tiles changed from red to blue, the sky changed from blue to bright green or yellow and the town or street reduced to blocks of related colors. It is my intention to create a feeling of these places that invites the viewer to sense the mood of the town by its colors rather than simply by its architecture. Occasionally I will repeat a landscape in a different color in order to create a different mood. When I repeat these landscapes, I find the shapes become less important and the colors are left in more abstract blocks. These places eventually are reduced to colors against a horizon. The sky will remain the sky no matter what color it is if it retains a milky quality. The town will remain a town if it is full of geometry. Nothing more is really necessary to make us feel these places. MEDIUM: All paintings are oil on Antwerp linen unless otherwise noted. Elizabeth Anfield: Landscapes
Chinon in Fall
28” x 22”
Bamburg
28” x 20”
House in the Woods
28” x 24”
Kraków 28” x 22”
Gordes
28” x 24”
Shadow on Canal
30” x 24”
Chinon In Summer
28” x 24”
Mountains and Rooftops
28” x 24”
Rialto
28” x 22”
Weisbaden
28” x 24”
Segovia
28” x 22”
Sidewalks of Venice
28” x 20”
Venice Pink
34” x 28”
Stoplight
34” x 28”
Red Sunset
28” x 24”
Grand Canal
47” x 36”
Cuenca
30” x 20”
Quito
28” x 20”
Venice Garden
24” x 18”
Monastery
28” x 18”
 Sunrise in Venice
34” x 28”
Toledo
30” x 22”
Black Swans of Venice
34” x 28”
Misha in Lyon
34” x 28”
Grave Sunset
28” x 24”