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Copyright 2000 Don Elzer
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1981 Highway 6 East, Lumby
British Columbia, Canada V0E 2G1
After a quarter century of creating fine art and craft, D.H.Elzer's original ideas can be found in over 800 personal collections world-wide.
The diversity of his work can be found in the streetscapes and focal points of public streetscapes and homes.
D.H.Elzer's artistic and literary contributions, cultural and political commentaries have touched many Canadians, however he is still considered an unknown in both literary and visual art circles.
“There is only one way that I can attempt to record and translate the natural world, and that is to be within it so that it surrounds me”.
Much of Don Elzer’s landscape painting is developed outdoors in a plein air fashion. He has been influenced by the Impressionists and the Canadian Group of Seven painters including Emily Carr as well as the Barbizon School and more recently artists such as Robert Rauchenberg.
“It becomes difficult for me to know when a landscape painting remains just that. Often I want to begin to transform it to sculpture or into some other mixed media form. The landscape in its raw form represents a beginning or starting point for me, strictly visual, if it evolves into something else it means pushing it into the realm of touch and space. But often it speaks volumes on its own, as a place in time, a simple landscape.”
Recently Don Elzer has focused his attention on the micro-world of a changing planet, examining close-up plants and insects as part of the landscape.
