Artwork copyright Regina Loch-Elvert. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Forest, 2001

Regina Loch-Elvert
American German (born 1953)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

About the Artwork

Artist Regina Loch-Elvert’s painting Forest shows the beauty of the Oregon landscape. Her composition references the work of Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel during the early 1500s. She describes the Bruegel painting that inspired her as having “a somber and mysterious feeling, which made a deep impression on me. It then was my intention to paint a landscape with this kind of impact in expression and a landscape with a powerful sky.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.

About the Artist

Artist Regina Loch-Elvert creates abstract, expressive paintings derived from landscapes. Of her work, the artist writes "I am constantly searching while I am painting, trying to create a space that can be understood by itself, a visual order that creates a solution."