Eleanor Louise Butt

Eleanor Louise Butt’s ten metre commissioned work ‘Music and Trees’ can now be viewed installed at the newly opened HER BAR in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne . “During the spring of 2021 I travelled through a forest daily to get to the studio where I made this painting. The light shone through the new leaves and…

Link to exhibition review below: https://www.rrr.org.au/shared/broadcast-episode/13040/2220000/2972000  

Sunshine-Tinted Paintings By Eleanor Louise Butt STUDIO VISIT In these late autumnal days heading firmly into winter, the shift between seasons is most noticeable. Daylight savings slips away, temperatures drop into distinctly icier territory, and nature’s fragility begins to flake into nothing. Eleanor Louise Butt’s paintings remind us of this seasonal shift. Her latest body…

Eleanor Butt What led you to choose painting as a medium? (Or did painting choose you?) Painting is the medium that allows me to speak my own language. When I was very young, my mum was at university and doing an art subject, I remember clearly being interested in the research, images, and stories behind…

Working in loose, gestural abstraction, my painting practice is process driven. Through colour, texture, lines and forms, I combine surfaces and gestural energy, adopting the potentialities of paint to create surfaces where action, experience, perception and memory are interwoven and folded back into one another. The surface of each painting becomes a charged space through…