Elaine Chew

Elaine is an artist/printmaker with over 17 years of experience. Her work aims to be a direct expression of her dharma practice, investigating our relationship to change, impermanence, receptivity, and emptiness, through teachings from nature.

Formally trained as a printmaker, Elaine also makes watercolours from respectfully foraged, natural pigments.

Deeply influenced by her time living and working in Oakland, CA in 2009, followed by 10 years living and working in New York, Elaine’s artistic practice is fiercely oriented around a grassroots approach. Building small, collaborative communities and liberating one’s creativity from a reputation economy, are core tenets to her ethos of art as a process of care and service.

Whether she is investing in long term, collaborative relationships, or slow, material processes made by hand, Elaine prioritises depth of connection as her primary marker of cultural impact.