It’s funny how the shorter days of winter effect our psyche.  Less daylight has us longing to curl up and hibernate until the spring.  When the sun is out and shining, we turn our faces toward it, soaking up every precious ounce that we can.  For artist Elise Morris, seeking and finding the light is a part of her process, resulting in paintings that are positively luminous.

In Morris’s paintings, the light fairly flutters across the canvas, darting in and out of the shadows like a firefly.  Those flickers of light shine through to give her paintings the magic of light being filtered through a forest canopy– alluring and glowing, giving us reassurance that the light will find its way through the darkness.

If you’d like to see more of the work of Elise Morris, please visit her website and Facebook page.

All images via the artist’s website.