Erin Daniels’ practice examines the relationship between landscape, material, and perception, drawing from the coastal environments of Southern New Jersey. Working primarily in painting, and informed by her background in textile design, Daniels translates the visual and physical language of estuarine landscapes into works that explore pattern and transformation. Through reduction and abstraction, she distills the landscape to its essential forms as a means of investigating origins and the concept of tabula rasa—a space of possibility from which new forms can emerge.

Erin is a third-generation graduate of Moore College of Art + Design in Philadelphia, where she earned her BFA in Textile Design. Raised in a family of artists, she developed an early foundation in observational practice and material exploration, later expanding her knowledge through an apprenticeship with a weaver in Scotland. These experiences continue to inform her approach to painting, where an understanding of textile processes, surface, structure, and repetition intersects with a contemporary engagement with landscape and abstraction.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in national and international print and digital publications. Through a process-driven exploration of place, her paintings invite sustained attention to the subtle structures, rhythms, and transformations embedded within the natural environment.