The Artist

Elaine Eisenberg has been painting and drawing since she was a child. Her love of landscape painting has her working out-of doors “a la prima”, directly on paper or canvas. Like the impressionists, she is most attracted to natural light and shadow, working to capture the wind, the light and a moment in time. She works spontaneously, whether portraying a Cape Cod sky, Algarve fishermen or Newton scenes.

The artist works in watercolors as well as oils and acrylics. A critic of one of her one-woman exhibitions referred to it as “a group show” because of her versatility.

Elaine Eisenberg studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art. She is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Purchase Prize of the Boston Arts Festival and the New Members Award from the Cambridge Art Association. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Newton School System and Newton Parks Department.

Her paintings have been exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, National Embassy in Hong Kong and Boston College and are included in many public and private collections worldwide. Annually Ms. Eisenberg paints and exhibits in the Algarve. The local fishermen, waterfront and village of Alvor are widely represented in her work. At home the city’s parks, homes and gardens are often the focus of her art. For several years Eisenberg exhibited and painted at the weekly Farmers Market and was featured in The Tab as “The Newton Farmer’s Market Artist in Residence”.

When not in Portugal, she teaches classes in her Waban Studio. E-mail:

Website: www.ElaineEisenberg.com