Elaine Reed is an artist who lives in Hill Head, Hampshire, UK.  She specialises in painting and teaching watercolours although she loves working in pastels, gouache, coloured pencils and oils also.

Formal training was a Foundation year leading to an SRD in Graphic Design/Illustration at Southampton Faculty of Art and Design followed by a year of studying Fine Art at L’École des Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France.

Her favourite subject is the sea.  In recent years her work has branched into two main directions.  One, the local area and two, painting pictures of the way clear water moves over rocks and sand, how the colours and tones change as the water gets deeper and how the light falling down through water makes patterns.

Recent work has been all about light on the water and the patterns created by the shapes of sand ripples and shingle bars on Hill Head beach and how the water runs around and through those shapes. Along with that theme have been paintings of members of local sailing clubs getting ready to race or returning from sailing.

In the last few years she’s exhibited at Titchfield Art Show, with Hampshire Open Studios and ‘Best of Hampshire Artists', taken part in the annual exhibitions of the Whiteley Art Society, the newly formed Solent Art Society and the Portsmouth Museum Open Exhibition.  Her work can be seen at the Hiscock Gallery in Southsea, at Brown’s Fine Art, Locks Heath, Hardings at Warsash, various other local galleries and at her home.

She teaches watercolour painting, although has cut back a little on that for this year and, over the last few years, has also organised and taught on holidays abroad for small groups of artists.  She also paints to commission.

Plans for the coming year include working up paintings from recent travel around the Mediterranean and in New England. 

Elaine can be contacted by 'phone: +44 (0) 1329 662408 or at Seven Sevens Guest House, 56 Hill Head Road, Hill Head, Hampshire, U.K. PO14 3JL, or email