Eleonore Esau

Eleonore's texture-based work derives from her fascination with layers of time and human experience.

Esau perceives successive tiers of experience built upon the hurts and hopes, the aspirations and challenges of previous generations, those whose constant celebrations of victory and tears of defeat attest to the resilience of the human spirit. As every new stratum of experience is added, a fascinating totality emerges from the depths.

Esau's work expresses her conviction that there is inherent beauty and worth in all creation, from the loftiest mountain peak to lowliest scrub bucket. She finds meaning in meeting adversity as well as in human endeavour, discovering that there is redemption in loss. Her artistic effort is to interpret and present that meaning; her wish is that she might convey to the viewer, in some small measure, the beauty of the Creator and the created, a beauty that pervades the world despite any fragility of circumstance.