Elana Cooper Flower 2024

Elana Cooper flower drawing in oiled walnut rounded corner, beveled frames with face splines. Glazed with Optium anti-reflective plexiglass. 25” x 17-1/4”

Elana Cooper is primarily known for her striking, large-scale floral silhouettes, though animals are also a common subject of her work. Cooper paints in bold strokes, the background in one color and the subject in a contrasting color, giving her representational work an abstract quality. Drawing from journal of flowers, Cooper has created her modern floral silhouettes as with ink, watercolor, acrylic and even as 3-D wood cutout sculptures.

Cooper began working in Creativity Explored's studio in 2013 and says, “I never made art before coming here. I didn't know I had the skills for it!” Cooper's popular floral silhouettes have been licensed by Open Editions and commissioned as large large scale public murals by State Bird Provisions. Her iconic flower designs were re-imagined in large-scale for Of Here From There | De Aquí Desde Allá, and interaction digital installation created in partnership with Ana Teresa Fernández in 2020.