Elise Gold Sewall is a contemporary realistic oil painter. Her interests are painting translucent imagery, reflection, and color.

She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Michigan State University studying with the late James Adley, the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, and the Arts Student League in NYC studying with Karen O’Neil.

After studying painting, Elise honed her ability to portray refracted light during her career as an award winning fine jewelry designer in New York City where she painted the brilliance of precious stones and metals in her work. Her fine jewelry designs won both DeBeers and Mikimoto awards. Designing jewelry informed her painting. Twenty five years later Elise began devoting all of her time to her art.

After years of primarily painting portraits and landscapes she moved her concentration to still lives. Her work has been shown and been recognized in juried shows nationally and internationally.

"...Light, color and reflection are the key areas I explore in my paintings. Simply composed, unassuming commonplace objects that I take for granted have become fascinating and beautiful. I’m very interested in the subtleties of color that show up in shadows and what’s reflected from one object to another."

Florida Weekly-April 2021