Elise Richman | elisemariarichman@gmail.com

High Lonesome


The High Lonesome landscapes are love letters to place, to the rivers and streams where Snake River salmon and steelhead begin and end their remarkable and imperiled life cycle. These landscapes also serve as encounters with diverse and specific habitats the have shaped and been shaped by distinct salmon populations.
Dagger Falls, watercolor and pastel on paper, 66 x 46 inches, 2026
Bear Valley and Elk Creek Confluence, watercolor and pastel on paper,  49 x 66 inches, 2025
Lostine River, watercolor, charcoal, and pastel on paper,  40 x  20.75 inches, 2025
Elk Creek, watercolor on paper,  24 x 28 inches, 2025
Red Fish Lake, watercolor on paper, 29 x 42 inches, 2026
The Grande Ronde River, watercolor and pastel on paper,  39 x 51 inches, 2026
Sunbeam Dam, watercolor and pastel on paper,  51 x 39.5 inches, 2021
Meadow Near Salmon River Headwaters, colored pencil on paper, 34 x 50 inches, 2024
River of No Return Meadow Grass, colored pencil on paper, 43 x 34 inches, 2025
Johnson Creek Meadow, colored pencil on paper,  28 x 46.5 inches, 2026
Lemhi Willow, colored pencil on paper, 34.5 x 46 inches, 2026
Minam River, watercolor and pastel on paper,  19 x 14 inches, 2025
Catherine Creek, watercolor on paper,  14 x 15.5 inches, 2026
Salmon River Headwaters 4, willow ink on paper, 14 x 15.5 inches, 2024
Hurricane Creek, watercolor on paper, 17.25 x 12.5 inches, 2025
Salmon River Headwaters, watercolor on paper,  22 x 29 inches, 2026
Salmon River Headwaters 1, willow ink on paper,  14.5 x 15 inches, 2024
Salmon Headwaters 2, willow ink on paper, 14 x 14.5 inches, 2024
Salmon Headwaters 3, willow ink on paper, 14.25 x 18.75 inches, 2024
Tucannon River,  watercolor on paper, 13 x 11 inches, 2025
South Fork Salmon River, watercolor on paper,  21.25 x 15 inches, 2026
Lochsa River, watercolor on paper,  18 x 22 inches, 2026
Marsh Creek, watercolor and pastel on paper,  23.25 x 18.25 inches. 2026
Middle Fork Salmon River,  watercolor and graphite on paper, 42.5 x 54.5 inches, 2023
Middle Fork Salmon Sketch, watercolor on paper,  22 x 22 inches, 2026
Grande Ronde and Wenaha River Confluence,  watercolor and pastel on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 2025
Wenaha River, ink on paper, 15 x 11 inches, 2025
Beaver Creek, watercolor on paper, 23 x 17 inches, 2026
Main Salmon River, watercolor on paper, 30x22 inches, 2026

Tuccanon River, ink on paper,  14 x 13.5 inches, 2025
Petitt Lake Sketch,  watercolor and pastel on paper, 15 x 11 inches, 2023




Pool and Horizon Series



The relationship between living organisms and their environment is the basis of ecology.  An ecological ethos infuses current and past work through the layered accumulation of multiple discrete marks that combine to create dense, interconnected environments and color fields.  
The Pool seriess engages with palpable light, felt space, and stacked life as each discrete bead of paint retains its integrity as colored matter as it is subsumed into a whole.




City State Pool, oil on canvas, 18x14 inches
Garden Pool, oil on canvas, 6x6 inches
Alpine Pool, oil on canvas, 6x6 inches
Alpine Pool detail
Garden Pool detail
City State Pool detail
Horizon I, Acrylic on panel, 12x12 inches
Pool, oil on canvas, 6x6 inches
Marine, 22x30 inches, acrylic on paper
Marine detail
Pool detail
Horizon IV, acrylic on panel, 12x12 inches
Horizon Marine, Acrylic on paper, 6x6 inches
Horizon Dawn, acrylic on panel, 12 x 12 inches