Elinor Stanley uses painting to amplify and heighten psychological experience; the figurative focus of a painting shifts as a confused eye might. Colour is pitched at a high frequency, huge heads swim, perspective lurches, bodies repeat.
 
She pursues humour and economy in her figurative devices- dynamics between subjects are played by peculiar instruments of scale, perspective and speed. Naked figures are caught in bulging exchanges of tenderness, cruelty and humour.
There is a sense of a biased weighted gaze in the paintings, and an evident appetite and sensual pleasure in the material.