Elisabeth Marsch specializes in portrait and figure painting on reacted copper panels. She works with acids, metal, and unusual materials to create rich substrates for her paintings, which explore the human psyche and its relationship to other people and the world.
Elisabeth combines traditional oil painting with experimental chemical reaction processes to create figurative paintings exploring human experience. Some of her primary themes are touch as life-giving versus destructive, change as growth versus decay, and human gaze as challenging vs inviting. With the traditional techniques of oil she delights in realism and the beautiful, precise capture of the human form, while in her chemical processes she explores reaction, change, experiment, and chance. This combination of techniques gives her works a modern yet aged aesthetic and empowers them with material processes that can bear complex thematic messages.