Nicholas Serota as Tate director. She spends her time divided between Camden in London and Paris. She is now a full-time artist. As well as painting her own work, she is also a collector of other Stuckist paintings by Ella Guru, Charles Thomson, Bill Lewis, Philip Absolon, Rémy Noë and Ruth Stein. She is married to John Kerr, an architect. Art Dax said that she chose her themes of myths, legends and fairytales as "I find reality terribly sad and cruel. I need to escape to another dimension," and that her style has been likened to Chagall's. A large body of her paintings are of Greek mythology, composing a mass of figurative detail. She respects the force of nature. Research for a painting is a combination of academic books on the subject and infant picture books, which leads to a few weeks' mental preparation for the main elements. The first part of the painting is the central character, around which other images evolve in an imaginative process to "discover images like you might discover figures in a cloud." It takes her three months to complete the painting. She has said of her work: Solo shows 2002, Westminster Gym, Houses of Parliament, London 2002, Lourdes Museum, Pau, France Gallery Notes and references External links Gallery of Elsa Dax myth paintings Old gallery of Elsa Dax myth paintings Elsa Dax in mungbeing.com John Kerr Associates 1972 births Living people 20th-century French painters 21st-century French painters Stuckism University of Paris alumni