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Welcome to Elaine Steele's Gallery

Welcome to my world of creativity and inspiration! 


My work is autobiographical, a reflection of readings, emotions and concerns of our fast-changing environment. It often incorporates gestural marks and suggests realism so anyone can read them. My collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, and much more. 


Whether you need a custom piece or just want to explore some beautiful art, you are in the right place. If any of my pieces interest you or you have any questions, please use the 'Enquire' button to contact me with the name of the art and we shall make it happen. 

Artwork for sale

Red Head

Red Head

Size: 41x32cm

Medium: Acrylic & gold leaf  canvas board

Price: $600 (framed)

Description: One of a series of works created to celebrate women a series of portraits.

Exhibited at Silkwood Estate - Pemberton

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Samovar

Red Head

Size: 66x82cm

Medium: Acrylic with metal leaf on canvas

Price: $650

Description: To celebrate a wedding party between different cultures.  I chose the Samovar theme as a symbol of sharing, coming together and unity.

In Russia Central Asia and Persia, tea is often prepared in a samovar which is a glorified large teapot/kettle. The tea ceremony is a valued gift of respect and honour in many cultures.

Exhibited at Silkwood Estate - Pemberton

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Prussian Flow

Size: 60x90cm

Medium: Cyanotype on canvas

Price: $890

Description: Figurative suggestion and bird shape. First I collected found Cockatoo feathers and local flora from my daily walks. Then painting the light-sensitive medium on the canvas I placed the objects on the canvas that block out the light and then let the sun develop the colour. This is a memory to me of my walks around my home.

Exhibited at Silkwood Estate - Pemberton

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Margaretas Cat

Size: 93x62cm

Medium: Acrylic paint and acrylic inks on canvas

Price: $950 (framed)

Description: My inspiration from novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov from 1929 this novel describes a visit from the devil with his entourage to Margarita in Soviet Union.

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Solar - Feathers and Flowers

Size:  55x75cm

Medium: Cyanotype on paper

Price: $760 (framed behind glass)

Description: I use the symbolism of the flower shapes for new growth the falling flora and feathers for the passing time.

Exhibited at Silkwood Estate - Pemberton

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The Third Truck

Size: 94x123cm

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Price: $1200

Description: One of three on canvas in this series (photo from Michale Bauer inspired these large works). This painting is visually different all about displacement herded women and control.

My home page also features 'The second Truck' which is pastels and water-based pigments on canvas

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Linkage

Size: 80x120cm

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Price: $1900

Description: Observing these two long-time friends hold fascinating intense conversations, like academics, discussing and sparing on the deeper meanings questions of life on earth and throughout the galaxy. Here I reference a long ride on their Triumphs. Still wearing the winter bike gear gave me licence to play with the textures of the acrylic paint on canvas which I like to use as it is such a contrast to the ubiquitous screens we are all surrounded by. Mostly my works are narrative.  You may see a third character to add ambiguity to the story.

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Reflection

Size:  125x135cm

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Price: $1100 (framed)

Description: Exhibited at Silkwood Estate - Pemberton

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Overflow

Size: 42x120cm

Medium: Acrylic paint over silver leaf on canvas

Price: $950 (framed)

Description: This acrylic painting is a response to the overflow alongside the backs of our dam when we have an abundance of water, the change in landscape reveals silver grey areas not seen in other seasons. I began this playful combination with a simple linear composition, gradually separating and then breaking up to observe the gold leaf with different companion shapes and colours.

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Life blooms silver blue

Life blooms silver blue

Size:  16x49cm

Medium: Acrylics over metal leaf on panel

Price: $1100

Description: Exhibited at Silkwood Estate - Pemberton

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Couple 1

Size: 54x45cm

Medium: cyanotype pastels  acrylics and silver leaf 

Price: $590 (framed)

Description: My Comfort series stems from my emotions after watching a soldier comforting a friend. Why compassion/empathy. Ask the question 'are you OK'? What can I do? Do I know what you're thinking? Of course not. Hold Held Nurture Love, Protect touch touched, Isolation shock trauma separation alone single endure align encourage cover together, Warm cosy safe. This is after the global pandemic. I always enjoy using figures in my paintings, especially to enhance an emotion.

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Couple 2

Size: 16x20cm

Medium: Acrylic pearlised paint on canvas panel

Price: $600

Description: Part of comfort series. 

I have used the pearled paint to shine, with warm sunny colours to uplift and contrast the emotion of the first painting

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Couple 3, Child

Size: 16x20cm

Medium: Mixed media with gold leaf on canvas behind glass

Price: $600

Description: Part of comfort series.

In this composition, I experimented with adding more texture to counteract the reflection of the gold leaf. Adding text - the writing is the remains of the beautiful script of a sentimental letter.

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Couple 4, Comfort with Flowers

Size: 28x20cm

Medium: Mixed pastels & water-based pigments on canvas: 

Price: $600

Description: Part of comfort series.

I am still keeping the triangle shape in the overall composition, adding openness with the overlay of floral shapes to create fresh feelings to lighten and calm the emotional charge. 

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Break up

Size: 40x50cm

Medium: Acrylic with metal leaf on canvas

Price: $600

Description: I began this playful combination with simple linear composition, gradually separating then breaking up to observe the gold leaf with different companion shapes and colours.

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Poet or Priest Jamal

Size: 62x62cm

Medium: Oil paint canvas

Price: $850 (framed)

Description: Conflicts of myths stories and confessions initiated this painting as an experiment with colour.

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Elemental Fragments

Size:  81x60cm

Medium: Collage from my own made papers gold leaf cyanotype pastel

Price: $910 (farmed behind glass)

Description: This collage I started working on while in a studio with a group of artists all working on our own works but also a lot of discussions were happening. Sometimes even with many distractions I find I can be in the flow and relaxed enough to put away the self-critic and just be & go with my instincts. This was one of those wonderful days. The composition was floating for a while and, not till I got back to my studio did I see the structure that was needed to hold all the elements together,

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Four in One

Size:  53x73cm

Medium: Cyanotype acrylics, metal paints, silver and gold leaf on canvas

Price: $890

Description: Four in One (being four limbs). Theme of group show What would you want painted on your Protheses? Started with basic leg shapes. My thoughts were to show an orientation view of front, back and side all at one time. Accessory colour blue sky and sea, metals earth silver gold paint

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Holding Perigrine

Size: Print 22x14cm (paper size 29x21) 

Medium: Reduction lino print

Price: $70

Description: (Edition of five)  Inspiration watching the manoeuvres in the flight of the Peregrines in Pemberton. Then meeting up with a wheelchair-bound person the same day I was contemplating the two together. Sketching my ideas I decided to create this lino cut.

Reduction Lino or woodcut is made using one block: For multiple colours, the first part of the design is carved into a block, then inked, printing the first colour. The block is then cleaned, carved again, and inked for the next colour. The process of carving and printing continues for each subsequent colour till little may be left of the original block.

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Portia - the intelligent jumping spider

Size: 30x20cm

Medium: Reduction lino print

Price: $180

Description: (Edition of five) In the SW of West Australia we have amazing spiders, the now very popular peacock and the jumping spiders. Now recognised as intelligent. Watching them and after reading the novel “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky led me to produce the lino cut Portia. Showing the spider and the Lizard.

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Pink for Love

Size: 29x42cm

Medium: Monotype Gelletine print

Price: $80

Description: Monotype  is one of a kind  an original unique piece of art

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Dancing Seat

Size: 29x42cm

Medium: Monotype Gelletine print 

Price: $80

Description: Monotype is one of a kind  an original unique piece of art

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Feather Girl

Feather Girl

Feather Girl

Size: 42x30cm

Medium: Monotype Gelletine print on paper

Price: $80

Description: Feather girl is part of a series of No one You Know series of Women



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Yellow Cat

Feather Girl

Feather Girl

Size: 42x30cm

Medium: Inks on paper 

Price: $80

Description: This is about the free flow of gestural, flowing watercolor, embracing the inks in an almost meditative way. It is about enjoying the process rather than starting with a fixed idea. A strong mark of color is all it takes to begin. It is a balance of intellect with intuition, but in these works, intuition takes the lead.

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Blue Pond

Feather Girl

Size: 42x30cm

Medium: Inks on paper

Price: $80

Description: Another one in the series of free-flowing watercolour.

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Peck

Size: 42x30cm

Medium: Inks on paper

Price: $80

Description: Another one in the series of free-flowing watercolour.

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Blue View

Size: 56x38cm

Medium: Inks on paper

Price: $80

Description: Another one in the series of free-flowing watercolour.

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Morph

Size: 42x30cm

Medium: Inks on paper

Price: $80

Description: Another one in the series of free-flowing watercolour.

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SOLD Artwork

Respite - SOLD

Size: 90x90 cm

Medium: Acrylic metal leaf on panel

Price: $1600

Description: Rest and relief for the mind and for our planet. An acrylic landscape with gold leaf as a reference to the history of mining. Gold can symbolise wealth, success, prestige, prosperity, compassion and religious enlightenment. Gold also has a dire history and is still retrieved from the land using the poorest people in the world. I created a decorative composition that could also hold many dark secrets for the eye to traverse, rest and rejuvenate.

Diamond Forest - SOLD

Size: 47x63cm

Medium: Cyanotype on paper with gold leaf and metal paints

Price: $485 (Framed behind glass)

Description: I live in the Diamond Forest. All the shapes shadows and the shapes in between are from the Diamond Forest. 

Appreciating Turtle Eggs - SOLD

Size: 36x36cm

Medium: Pastels and oil on canvas 

Price: $900

Description:  I began this work as a celebration, thinking and reflecting on my fortunate situation. My appreciation of the diversity of my surroundings. After observing the Long Neck Turtles ambling through the Sword Grass up from the river, crossing the red ochre gravel then slide down the clay walls to the water of our dam in front of my home. Later I watched them crawl out and dig into the hard gravel ground to lay eggs. (Next day I saw the cracked soft empty egg shells at the burial site, with scratching etched into the ground from the Fox that had eaten the eggs.)

This canvas started as a pastel then texture and hazy effects to help keep it light. Then moved on to using light oil paint on the canvas.

Floral Abundance - SOLD

Size: 52x42cm

Medium: Acrylic gold leaf on canvas

Price: $650

Description: Exhibited at Silkwood Estate - Pemberton

Back to Back - SOLD

Back to Back - SOLD

Size: 16x20cm

Medium: Inks over gold leaf (metal) on canvas panel 

Price: $600

Description: Though the composition shows two people back to back perhaps I've got your back would also be suitable as I intended the composition to be strong, upright and supportive in emotion and structure. I am excited to use the metal leaf which is so interesting as it changes as you move around, shimmering and dulling depending on the lighting and the amount of wash I use to reduce reflection. Using metal leaf the possibilities and effects can create a sea of difficulties that inspire me to learn how to use it.


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