Based in Dunedin, New Zealand, Eliza Glyn uses landscape as a framework to investigate and express her inner world. In her atmospheric works, landforms like hills, peninsulas and islands are distilled down to simplified shapes that appear to float in space.
Holding a Bachelor of Arts with a painting major from Bennington College in the USA, Glyn’s thin application of oils imparts these forms with an ephemeral, almost gas-like quality. Muted tones and sensitive treatment of light contribute to a meditative, dreamlike atmosphere. By infusing the local landscapes, which she depicts with a humming presence, the artist aims to explore the “resonant beauty of a city at the bottom of the world”.
Her extensive exhibition history across New Zealand over the past decade or so is testament to the fact that her works are indeed resonating with viewers.
Above: Eliza Glyn, Otago Harbour (imagined), 2023. Oil on canvas, 84 x 220cm. Courtesy: the artist.