This month we are celebrating International Women’s Day on 8 March and International Day of Happiness on 20 March.
Artwork: Kirsti Matthews
Women’s Voice
A great patron does more than fund — they help build a bigger table. They don’t simply buy work; they invest in equality. They back visions, protect their time, and create space for voices that history too often asked to be smaller.
Why Do Artists Need Patrons?
Expressive, lover of colour and abstract forms in nature and the world around, Elaine paints from a mixture of remembered scenes, imagination and feelings…
Elaine Almond
Women’s Voices
Imagine how many masterpieces were never painted.
How many visions never reached the light.
How many women were asked to quieten, to shrink, to wait.Equality is not about offering women a seat at the table.
It is about building bigger tables — and ensuring they own them.Empowerment begins where talent is properly resourced.
Inclusion becomes real when opportunity is funded, not just promised.Art has always evolved because someone chose to back brilliance. From the courts of Catherine de' Medici to the salons of Gertrude Stein, patronage has shaped culture, protected risk, and amplified new voices.
To support an artist today is to continue that lineage.
It is to say: your vision deserves longevity.
Your voice deserves sustainability.Female equality in the arts is not a symbolic gesture.
It is an economic shift.Patrons do more than purchase work.
They purchase time.
They protect experimentation.
They make careers possible.They are the bridge between potential and legacy.
Elaine Almond
“Art for me is about being expressive and conveying feelings that others can relate to. I love colour and abstract forms, in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, but I am also drawn to the landscape and sea, to processing life experiences and a deep Christian faith and spirituality through my art too.”
Elaine is an expressive abstract artist and teacher, lover of colour and abstract forms in the abstract expressionist tradition. She paints multilayered works intuitively in acrylics, inks and oils from nature and life and faith experiences.
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