Upon turning sixty, and a lifetime of making art–Eleanor turned seriously to the task of creating sculpture. Her passion for art and her love for dance combined, as she decisively began her "Women" Series. With a determined progression, Eleanor studied anatomy, worked with models, and continuously sculpted until there was a mature nature to her renditions
As Eleanor worked – an affinity with the Renaissance came the to the foreground, through studies of Michelangelo, Bernini, Artemesia Genteleschi and Carravagio, all remarkable artists with extraordinary abilities to define the human form. Rounding out her studies with the turn of the century artists, such as Maillol, Rodin and Gaston Lachaise.
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."