Elayne Windsor is a multi award winning collage artist from the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. She is the Meeting Chair for the Kawartha Arts Network, the New Membership Chair for the Colour and Form Society and a Member at Large with the Ontario Society of Artists.

Elayne is a self taught artist who has taken workshops with various artists such as John Leonard, Denis Cliff and Kal Honey. Her work has been exhibited, in group and solo shows, across Ontario and also in the US. She works in both collage and decollage.

Most recently Elayne has held solo shows at The Kawartha Art gallery, Ecco gallery in Lakefield, Scugog Art space, the Bancroft Art gallery and the Northumberland gallery as well as participating in multiple group shows.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Being an artist is to constantly have a conversation with yourself. I walk to provide myself with thinking time. What comes up is often a multitude of questions, rather than answers. Back at my studio I am ready to explore the questions and see what answers arise. For me the meaning often comes behind the work, rather than in front of it. I work to narrow my thinking, searching for the answers.

My work charts both the inner and outer world, examining the world from multiple and varied perspectives at one time. It explores the simple outer rhythmical movement and patterns of my body integrated with my inner imagination and thinking.

Most recently my attention is held by decollage. It speaks to me of the 21st century when systems across the globe seem to be torn down and reinvented. What will remain of what we have built?