Joanna Carrabbio and Marco Elliott’s studio spaces are often home to not just works-in-progress, but little pieces of nature: lichen and leaves to be committed to canvas.
The two Eugene painters have spent years exploring the environment through explosions of color and texture they found in those pieces of nature. It culminates now in two concurrent painting series from the couple.
Carrabbio, 75, and Elliott, 77, both have work in “Escape to the Forest,” a gallery exhibit at the Maude Kerns Art Center. She has 13 paintings in the show, while he has 14…