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Looking Ahead: Spring Events 2008
JUNE 6-20
Ayse Gilbert
Susan Lindsey
Susan Pennewell Ellis
Ayse Gilbert
Susan Lindsey
Susan Pennewell Ellis
April 2008 First Friday: “Garden Variety”
Join us Friday, April 4th from 5 to 7pm for the opening of “Garden Variety”, an invitational multi-media show. We will be featuring the artwork of oil painter Deborah Porter.
Preview the Show (Visit the gallery to see more!)
Preview the Show (Visit the gallery to see more!)
Biography
Susan Pennewell Ellis bring new perspective to all her work. Defining her mixed media pieces as “paintings on paper”, she invariably has an uncommon way of looking at common subjects. Previous paintings have been described as “breezy”, “splashy” and “exuberant”.
The pieces are primarily acrylic, punctuated occasionally with pen and ink, watercolor crayons or pastels. Her spontaneous use of color produces a feeling of spaciousness and warmth. Splattering her landscapes, tundra, hillsides and shorelines with drops of paint, she adds her trademark—chalky streaks of color in unexpected places to suggest life and movement.
Susan’s subjects are generally local. She sketches whenever possible, making notes of the colors she has in mind for quick recall in her home studio. The colors are nearly realistic.
The artist has a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, and has studied art in California, Colorado and Alaska. Years of life drawing allow her to take a thought “and do something with it.”
An Alaskan resident since 1976, the inspiration for her work comes from the immensity and diversity that is Alaska. There is, however, an abstract quality to her work that keeps it from being merely regional. The results are large, almost luminescent images. Susan Penewell Ellis captures it all, creating her own special art in the process.
Susan Pennewell Ellis bring new perspective to all her work. Defining her mixed media pieces as “paintings on paper”, she invariably has an uncommon way of looking at common subjects. Previous paintings have been described as “breezy”, “splashy” and “exuberant”.
The pieces are primarily acrylic, punctuated occasionally with pen and ink, watercolor crayons or pastels. Her spontaneous use of color produces a feeling of spaciousness and warmth. Splattering her landscapes, tundra, hillsides and shorelines with drops of paint, she adds her trademark—chalky streaks of color in unexpected places to suggest life and movement.
Susan’s subjects are generally local. She sketches whenever possible, making notes of the colors she has in mind for quick recall in her home studio. The colors are nearly realistic.
The artist has a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, and has studied art in California, Colorado and Alaska. Years of life drawing allow her to take a thought “and do something with it.”
An Alaskan resident since 1976, the inspiration for her work comes from the immensity and diversity that is Alaska. There is, however, an abstract quality to her work that keeps it from being merely regional. The results are large, almost luminescent images. Susan Penewell Ellis captures it all, creating her own special art in the process.