"I intend my paintings to activate speculation on the eye of the beholder through visual simile. Textures, colours and shapes reference the experience of living in and between forms, figures and natural forces. Velvet Head is the name of a place that may or may nor exist, possibly a high point in land from which actions and events might be observed. The transparent modulating green washes intersected with meandering lines leave me to muse on the difference between a map and the palpable surface of the land. Space and flatness can coexist in this place as ideas and associations pass by like weather. It is both an image of a place and a set of events at the same time. An imitation of reality and the literal record of my actions." - Elizabeth Neel, 2020