LOUISA MCELWAIN
Louisa McElwain adores summer storms, especially the way the light changes and the clouds dance across the horizon ahead of the rain. Living in the country, 20 miles outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Louisa is in tune with the changing weather. If it looks like “one of those days,” she is quick to pack up her pick-up truck and head out to find that “power spot” for what she likes to call “a dialogue with nature.” 
Once there, she moves quickly, stapling a large canvas to a makeshift armature mounted on the back of the pick-up. The tailgate provides a table for all of her paint – large globs squeezed in strict order from dozens of tubes. With palette knives and masonry trowels of all sizes, including some attached with duck tape to long sticks, she goes to work.
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