Elin Egoyan

Elements of Life by Elin Egoyan

In the exhibition ‘Elements to Life’ Elin takes you on a stroll through some aspects of her artistic life(s). A life that started about 20 years ago with a pencil, soft pastel crayon and her fingers as tools. Finally after a long time ignoring her desire to draw (teenagers are busy with far more ‘important’ things of course), she gave in and really got the hang of it!

Elements of Life by Elin Egoyan

In the exhibition ‘Elements to Life’ Elin takes you on a stroll through some aspects of her artistic life(s). A life that started about 20 years ago with a pencil, soft pastel crayon and her fingers as tools. Finally after a long time ignoring her desire to draw (teenagers are busy with far more ‘important’ things of course), she gave in and really got the hang of it!

In pastel crayon she soon found satisfaction in making ethnic portraits. The challenge to make them almost photographic was high, and they came out as she liked it. As an example she used photos that triggered her. A look or expression in the faces or simply how someone sat or did was enough. She emphasized what she found important and left out what was not essential.

But the smell of oil paint was calling and it did not take long to change direction. First oil paintings, but impatient as Elin can be (it takes sooooo long before oil paint is dry), she started soon after that with acrylic paints.

Her subjects often express things of (her) life. Things that kept Elin busy, a feeling or emotion which she tried to portray in bright and harmonious colours. Painting with her intuition and inner emotion as guide, letting herself float with the motions and colours, starting a painting often not knowing were it would end.

When Elin came to Second Life, one of her main goals was to have her own gallery to show and share what she created in RL. But in those 5 years Elin found so much satisfaction in being creative in the multitude of ways SL offers, landscaping, building … the drive to make creations better and better that she also has grown to be a skilled landscaper and builder.

Very carefully she stepped on the artistic SL road and now makes digital art and vases. The possibilities Second Life gives to artists is endless. With a lot of creativity, fantasy and imagination you can make the most breathtaking art, that you would have never thought possible in real life. And so eith Elin’s SL digital art and RL painting, art and life meet and unite to something she is very happy with.