Elizabeth Endres Studio Tour
I recently had the opportunity to travel down to Lambertville, New Jersey to visit the studio of artist Elizabeth Endres, and had the most wonderful time getting acquainted with her thoughtful, creative world. Elizabeth signed on to work with the gallery when we opened in 2021, but I hadn’t yet had the chance to meet her in person until this visit just over two years after our first phone conversation.
Browsing Elizabeth’s studio is a bit like looking at one of her paintings - there are collections and gathered mementos, stacks of books on art, interiors, and gardens, greenery and plants in unique vessels, and more. Elizabeth’s work is formed from both imagination and memory, but you immediately get a sense of what types of objects from her studio might inspire - or make their way into - a painting.
In addition to seeing so many of her current paintings in process, I was treated to glimpses of Elizabeth’s other past and current creative endeavors - an old journal from her time studying in France & Spain, her signature handmade watercolor tags, and various small studies and ideas she hopes to explore.
Elizabeth is both a night owl and an early morning riser when it comes to working, always eager and grateful to be at her easel and amongst her paints. It was a joy and a privilege to soak up some of the magic created within these walls in person. I am already looking forward to my next trip to Lambertville!
Elizabeth’s Statement
“I am a painter from New Jersey. Often, I work from memory and imagination; a cache that grows by observations from books and the home and natural world. I find inspiration in the things collected or accumulated, that scatter across the table, and tell of a season or moment. From heirlooms to everyday, familiar objects. Fruits sliced and whole. Nature’s curiosities gathered from a walk. Leafy stems, reaching branches, petals tumbling over. The strange and wonderful beauty of flora can inspire the direction of a painting. If not merely suggested by the objects assembled, a figure or two might sit in a painting. Usually partly concealed or obscured. Seemingly, quietly, pondering some thought. Four-legged creatures frequently wander into paintings as well.”
- Elizabeth Endres, 2023
