Elaine Coombs: Untethered

Elaine Coombs is a renowned Canadian painter based in San Francisco whose paintings explore the changing nature of the sky. For the artist, the exhibition’s title, Untethered, “encompasses feelings of freedom, joy, and lightness.”  In her semi-abstract compositions, reflective metallic backgrounds in silvery pearl, gold, and blue acrylicpaint represent sunlight and provide a soothing visual contrast to the meticulous, rhythmic palette-knife marks that indicate clouds. Her work captures the ethereal beauty and changing moods of the sky, without attempting to describe it in a literal sense.