Eleanor uses images of landscape to explore memory and emotions, particularly grief arising from the loss of both parents.  She uses photographs from individual moments and places, often with specific people, as the basis for her print work, translating those images through different processes as a way of capturing and preserving memories and navigating and containing unruly emotions.  Through traditional analogue processes, Eleanor transforms the intangible and the digital into something tangible and tactile.

Eleanor’s work explores the traces we leave in the landscape and the memories, experiences and objects that we take with us. She uses the idea of transitional objects to create tiny things which evoke or encapsulate something much larger; and describe intimate, personal emotions that also have universal salience.  Working mostly in printmaking, but with elements of painting, sculpture and book arts, Eleanor uses images of landscape which skirt the traditional notion of landscape art, focusing on what is underfoot or unseen instead of the scenic ‘sublime’.  These images tend to be textural and somewhat ambiguous, though for Eleanor there is a strong and specific meaning or memory associated with each one, with the intention that they will elicit the viewer’s own experiences of landscape.

Materiality and the haptic are important aspects of Eleanor’s work, with an emphasis on traditional materials that invite handling and manipulation.