Nose to Nose in Green Baby Onesie

I created this painting for a friend whose husband passed away. They had gone to Africa together and she gave me a bunch of photos of the elephants they saw at a sanctuary for a series of elephant paintings I was working on. It seemed only fitting that one should be created for her based off of a photo she'd had shared with me.

�Color and texture are hugely important in my work. Applied appropriately, they can actually elicit a visceral response from the viewer,� says Emily Page, a California-born, Virginia-raised artist. Page began experimenting with different brushwork and palette knife work, scraping and overlaying, from the very beginning. At Wake Forest University in North Carolina, she honed her skills and graduated with honors with a BA in visual arts. �I learned to work in a number of mediums, including sculpture and photography, but my passion has always been painting. I love working with oil paint simply for the richness of it. It just feels luxurious. And it affords such workability and durability. No other medium matches it. I enjoy branching...