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Collections:
Ellen's paintings are part of various private collections in Germany, Italy, Belgium, New Jersey and California. Please contact Ellen if you are interested in purchasing a painting.
The Press:
2008 - mention in May edition of Institue Saint Luc, Tournai
2008 - Des Dames, 38 Hoogstraat, Brugge. Permanent exhibition for the Bruges Art Route.
2007 - member of Bruges Art Route
2006 - First Prize - Royal Artist Competition
2005 - "Nils" on exhibition - SALT Branding, 30 Hotaling Place, San Francisco, CA
2005/2007 - Exhibition - St. Niklaas B&B, Bruges, Belgium
1993- Solo Exhibition - Galerie Ruetz, Munich, Germany
1992- Discovery Awards: Bronze Medal, Art of California Magazine
1992 - Group Exhibition - Q Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
1991 - Exhibition - Renaissance Winery, Yuba County, California
What is it...
that encourages a person who feels, thinks, and sees, to take up a pen or pencil, draw some shapes, only then to find a responsive chord vibrating back from the paper? As a child, I had a book called the Make It Book. It was filled with creative ways to turn sticks, stones, paper and glue into cities, gardens or animals. It powerfully nourished those first flushes of creativity in my life. Luckily, time and circumstances have provided other enriching influences.
As true Americans, my family moved around a lot when I was young. Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1955, we moved to Delaware, then Texas, and finally Ohio. College educated on the East Coast, I received my Bachelor of Arts, Degree in Studio Art, in 1977 from Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. Ten years in California only deepened my love for open, sensuous landscape. For the last sixteen years, my husband and I have been enjoying the ambience and architecture of Northern Europe.
A lifelong interest in technique has fuelled many experiments: the sensuousness of a chalk surface, ready for the first dabs of egg mediumed paint, searching for luminosity in the techniques of the Old Masters, India ink, slaked lime, melted beeswax mixed with resin and pigment. Finally, technique without inspiration is lifeless. Inspiration without technique is an unschooled child. If we are lucky, a little bit of both can come to us each day.
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Hippomenes
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John Woodrow Kelley
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The Greek myths embody everything that is timeless about the human experience. They reveal truths and acknowledge mysteries. They survive in the subconscious of Western man to the point that to learn about them is to experience a shock of recognition. They have been a successful vehicle for man's pursuit of self knowledge for countless generations, which is the reason I have chosen to make yet another interpretation of them through my paintings. Each generation has been inspired to a unique interpretation, and I have tried to present the old myths in a new way, showing all the irony and conflict of the modern world. The figures are contemporary, but the situations are ancient. It is a way of saying,"we are new, but we are old," "we are young, but we must die". History continually humbles the arrogance of man. The Greek myths tell us that this is our fate as well as our redemption.
Mr. Kelley is an artist whose entire life's work is devoted to creating a contemporary interpretation of the classical tradition in western civilization. This ambition is expressed through a series of paintings inspired by Greek mythology, as well as a study of the uniqueness of the human individual through the genre of portraiture. Mr. Kelley's attraction to Greek mythology is born of the belief that it embodies everything that is timeless about the human experience, and therefore is worthy of an interpretation expressing our own age. |
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