Artist Erin Daniels sitting in her art studio

Erin Daniels’ work emerges from a life spent wandering and contemplating the coastal meadows and tidal creeks of rural Southern New Jersey. From an early age she was attuned to this liminal landscape where land and water meet, quietly observing the rhythms, patterns, and textures etched by time and tide. This way of seeing - patient, observant, and deeply rooted in place - continues to shape her artistic practice.

Born into a family of artists, Erin is a third generation graduate of Moore College of Art + Design in Philadelphia, where she earned her BFA in Textile Design. Her creative path began at five years old, with watercolors lessons in a cedar clad fisherman’s cottage along the banks of the Great Bay Estuary. Her journey later carried her across the Atlantic where she worked as a weaver’s apprentice in her family’s ancestral homeland of Scotland. These formative experiences instilled a reverence for material, process, and tradition, while cultivating a practice that bridges a myriad of artistic techniques. Erin’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured in national and international print and digital publications, offering viewers a quiet invitation to pause, look closer, and reconnect with the often overlooked details of the natural world.

Erin Daniels CV

FINDING PEACE IN THE EBB & FLOW OF LIFE

In a world that rarely slows, the paintings of The Estuary Collection offer space for reflection and contemplation. Drawn from decades observing the restorative ebb and flow of tide and time shaping the coastal landscape of Southern New Jersey, these works unfold at the gentle pace of the waters that inspired them.

Beginning with a centering point of calm, rhythmic and unhurried brushstrokes gather, drift, and dissolve, creating an ethereal image that rewards stillness and presence.

The paintings of the Estuary Collection move quietly against the frantic pace of contemporary life, creating a space where the viewer can step away from the noise and return to the present moment.