Artists Eli Portman
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Eli Portman
Large-scale watercolor · Boston, MA
Eli Portman paints the places most people walk past without looking: Chinatown on a rainy day, the North End after a snowstorm, the long shadows of Boston’s Financial District at dusk. He works in watercolor and finishes the detail by hand with a dip pen. The pictures feel both precise and alive.
Background
Born and raised in the Boston area, Eli studied studio art at Binghamton University. He has made murals and custom work for clients from Starbucks to the City of Boston, and he teaches painting in Boston. In 2024 he painted the world’s largest watercolor in collaboration with the exhibition Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. This fall he’s working out of the creative studio at The Factory on Willow.
