Flame Hill
8.5 x 8 cm
Acrylic on stuffed cotton
2025
 
A stony hilltop burns and creatures watch on as a woman bathes in the stream below. Shrinking a landscape into this tiny form transforms it into a talismanic item, now becoming a fragment of a larger myth and an Otherworldly charm.
 
Elena Duff is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ireland. Her work explores liminal spaces, animism and our connection to the distant past. A graduate of NCAD Dublin, she has received multiple arts awards and exhibited widely in Ireland and Europe, creating works that blur boundaries between painting, sculpture, and story.