A key aspect of Esther Marie’s creative process is her continuous exploration of the diverse landscape we live on.

Esther Marie’s work is a quiet dialogue with nature…
rooted in the cycles of growth, decay, and renewal.
She draws inspiration from the elements…earth, water, sky…
viewing them as vital threads that bind us to the world around us.

Through her explorations of diverse landscapes, from Long Island to distant terrains…
she gathers impressions, translating sensory moments into layered visual forms.
Her multimedia approach, with drawing at its core, captures not just nature’s appearance,
but its deeper rhythms and unseen currents and patterns.

Lines recur like whispers of movement and change..
marking time, tracing the shifting pulse of the land.
Each piece begins in representation, then transforms…
moving through abstraction and impressionism…
until what remains is an… obscured representation:
a reflection of both the outer world and its hidden truths.

It is the endless push and pull…

the carving, the claiming, the quiet ruin of our world..

that stirs my brush to motion.

In every canvas, I chase the shifting skin of the land:

suburb and field, city and meadow,

forever reshaped by season,

by sprawl,

by the relentless reach of industry.

The landscape is never still…

it breathes, breaks, and begins again.

I am drawn to that rhythm,

to nature’s pure, unending cycle of becoming.

Within the layered strokes and some bold, some fleeting..

forms rise between abstraction and truth,

whispering what we, as artists, must not forget:

to honor ourselves,

to trust our instincts,

and above all…

to revere the earth that gives us voice.