While attending graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, I often went to the Art Institute in Chicago for inspiration. I had an epiphany when I saw the seven-foot bronze sculpture by Gaston Lachaise, titled “Standing Woman”. This was a profound turning point. The resonating clarity of form and line combined in a bold sculptural statement helped to inform my future sculptural statements
The "Women" are
in motion, filled with grace which is not about them, but
about their relationship to life. As an artist, I have been
humbled by with many years as a student of the Avataric Great Sage, Adi
Da Samraj.
Being instructed humanly, spiritually and as an artist.
Another
very strong influence for me has been my study of Eastern Art. The
Eastern culture has been able to express an intrinsic sensuality
of the feminine form rarely found in Western Art. I have included
here a few examples of the Eastern
Indian Goddess influences.
Eleanor Seeley - "Using women as my subject, the female form allows a sense of spontaneity – the sleek roundness, and the fluidity of one line/form flowing into the next, allowing movement, that could just as well be abstract as representational. Form is just that, it is only the viewer's sense of familiarity that dictates subject. As I am sculpting the figure, every point is considered in relationship to the whole, so the observer can, without interruption, move around the sculpture with each view a considered tableau. That they are women is secondary to the aesthetic sensuality of form. Conversely, that they are women is essential."