Contemporary painter · Marfa, Texas

The quiet weather
of paint.

Elise Warren works in oil and cold wax, building translucent fields that hold the shifting light of the high desert — slow paintings, made to be lived with.

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A painter with a loaded palette beside a finished canvas on an easel

Selected work

Recent paintings

Tidal Field No. 4 Oil & cold wax on panel · 2025 48 × 60 in
Marfa Nocturne Oil on linen · 2025 54 × 42 in
Undertow Oil & cold wax on panel · 2024 36 × 36 in
Chihuahuan Pigment & wax on panel · 2024 40 × 30 in
Quiet Interval Oil on panel · 2024 24 × 30 in
Ferrous Oil & cold wax on panel · 2023 30 × 24 in
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Elise Warren in the studio

In the studio

Slow paintings, made to be lived with.

Thin layers of pigment and cold wax are built up and scraped back until a surface holds light the way the desert does at dusk. Elise has shown across the US and Europe from her studio in Marfa.

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Inquiries & commissions

New paintings are released seasonally. For available work and studio visits, get in touch.

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