Elissa Leibowitz Poma
writer & artist

Artist's Statement

Important buildings and famous scenes are lovely, but they don’t evoke the same emotions as seeing a painting of your favorite corner bodega or neighborhood dry cleaner. In a big world, the ordinary and close-to-home are the most meaningful.

Whimsy is important to me, and I don’t believe in straight lines. I use watercolors sometimes in a very painterly way, other times just to color.  I take inspiration from a variety of sources: Japanese anime, New Yorker covers, the ocean, even German landscape watercolorists Johann Georg von Dillis and Caspar David Friedrich.

-Elissa Leibowitz Poma

• Paintings in Dupont Circle and DC
• Paintings in Philadelphia
• Paintings elsewhere in the world
• Commissions
• Recently sold