Urban Birch - Original Oil Abstract Painting/ Elizabeth Elkin

This is a dynamic, heavily textured abstract expressionist painting characterized by bold vertical streaks and a rugged, scraped surface. The work is inspired by the natural world. Artist utilized a palette knife or squeegee technique to drag thick layers of paint down the canvas, revealing underlying colors and creating a distressed, weathered effect. The color palette is earthy and dramatic, dominated by deep blacks, titanium white, burnt sienna, and ochre, with unexpected flashes of bright orange and pink near the center and bottom edge. The resulting composition feels both organic and industrial, evoking images of molten earth, rusted metal, or peeling bark.

Original painting Urban Birch from Discovery series.

Painting details:

• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Size: 20" × 24" × 0.8" (50.8 cm × 70 cm)
• Style: Expressionism
• Finish: ready to hang 
• Edges: Painted black
• Signed on the front
• Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Ships carefully packaged from the artist's studio in Quebec, Canada.

Elizabeth Elkin is a professional artist with over 35 years of experience, a member of the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA) and the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). Her work is held in private collections across Canada and internationally.