Water Colour, Exhibition Elis Taves

Elis Taves is a Brazilian-born artist who has been developing a visual archive centred on water since 2009, when she first began capturing its reflections, movements, and transformations in Dingle, Ireland. She is a member of Visual Artists Ireland and currently serves as President of the Bray Camera Club. Selected works from her Water Colour collection have been showcased in group exhibitions internationally, including at the Carrousel du Louvre in France, as well as in Belgium, Osaka (Japan), Helsinki (Finland), New York (USA), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Dublin, and now at the Courthouse Arts Centre in County Wicklow.

Working from her studio in County Wicklow, Taves’s photographic practice blends abstraction, documentary, and poetic sensitivity. Capturing moments with both digital cameras and mobile phones, her instinctive approach is attuned to the subtleties of light, environment, and the emotional resonance of water. Over the years, her practice has involved extensive travel around the globe, allowing her to build a vast archive of images drawn from diverse environments and cultures. Inspired by the works of Monet, Dalí, and the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh, Elis’s work draws upon the fluidity, dreamlike qualities, and deeper emotional layers of water. Each image becomes an exploration of the natural world and an attempt to capture the elusive beauty of time and transformation.

Water, in her work, becomes a metaphor for impermanence, time, and the urgent concerns of the present—especially in the face of the climate crisis. Her reflections on water invite viewers to contemplate not only the natural world but also the fragility of life itself. What if water, in its fragility, no longer flowed freely, or disappeared altogether?

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