The Artist

ESLYE
Artist's Statement and Bio

A wisp of a girl growing up in rural Georgia, Little Miss Eslye began her calling at the tender age of ten. A child of proud and quiet people, she saw a simple beauty in the world that she felt she could only express through color and canvas. Nurtured by her teachers Mrs. Ida Jones Brown and Nina Childs, Eslye refined her brush and her confidence and struck out to become the artist she is today.

Through the years she has studied the lives and works of other great artists like Cassatt, Casoni, Chagall, Degas, Gauguin, Goya, Homer, Manet, Matisse, Millet, Monet, O'Keefe, Renior, Sargent, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tropp, Van Gogh, Windkos, Whistler and Wyeth. Along the way she has supplemented herself as a graphic artist and architectural draughtswoman.

Today her patrons come from as far away as California, New York and England. One of her pieces titled "Macon Cherry Blossom Festival" is part of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's private collection. It is her dream to one day hang her paintings in some of the same great hallowed halls and museums that exhibit the works of the Masters. However, regardless of her fame as an artist she has never forgotten her roots. She is always quick to point out that anyone who knows a bare-footed little girl who liked to chase grandma's chickens in the red Georgia clay, knows her. Everyone is gone now but each one of these memories find rebirth with this deep rooted love for the South. No matter where she resides the red clay will always be between her toes. And whenever the South gives up one of Her stories to her paintings: in the people residing here, Her floral splendor, or Her panorama of landscapes that fill Her countryside, Eslye is grateful.