Elliff named May’s ‘Artist of the Month’

CELEBRATING THE ARTS

Chris Elliff has been interested in painting since early childhood. An artist friend and mentor led her to impressionism and abstract art. While portraits, landscapes and still life paintings are part of Elliff’s repertoire, color, motion and various forms of abstraction are her primary focus.

While realism is an artist’s vision and reproduction of what they see in nature, people, animals and still life, abstract art is the artist’s expression of personal feelings, attitude and creative expression of something new and original. Elliff finds the latter art form much more challenging and enjoyable to create.