Canadian American artist Elaine Coombs lives and works in San Francisco, California. Born and educated in Ontario, Canada, she moved to the Bay Area in 2001 after several years of travel and work abroad. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States, mainly in California, New York, Washington, and Utah, and also in Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Her work can be found in close to 400 private, corporate and public collections, most notably the U.S. Department of State - Art Bank Program; The City and County of San Francisco Civic Art Collection; the Ritz Carlton Highlands Hotel (Lake Tahoe, California), and Imagery Estate Winery (Glen Ellen, California).

In her latest artwork, Elaine is exploring the effects of light and fog as they relate to her ongoing fascination with the forest landscape environment. Her trademark dot technique is painstakingly handmade and yet evokes a pixelated computer image when viewed up close. Indeed, the work presents a duality of vision – one that juxtaposes the physical and the emotional, the figurative and the abstract, the handmade and the manufactured.

Recently, she was chosen as one of six artists commissioned by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to paint a large heart sculpture for the annual public art series - 2017 Hearts in SF.