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Marilyn EllisArtist's Statement
During a career in counseling and higher education, I established a rural community arts program and used visual art forms to educate students about the range of human intimacies. Time off work found me visiting art museums across the U.S. and Europe. A lifetime doodler, I sketched my way through graduate school, but it finally was early retirement that bumped me into taking the opportunity to develop my own artistic talents.
Largely self-taught, I work most frequently with watercolors, intermittently turning to oils to do traditional Norwegian Rosemalling. Like most visual artists, my goal is to share personal impressions of color and form. Within that goal, my focus and intent are to capture a visual image of energy created through contrast, repetition, gesture, or color – dynamics that give art the capacity to reach beyond what words can express.
I support the Madrone Hospice with donations of my work. Two watercolors hang in the Vanderbilt University Law School, others are in Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, and northern California. One painting took best-of-show at the Siskiyou County Fair, two were chosen Painting of the Month by the Siskiyou Artists Association, a group for which I serve in various capacities. Awards include numerous Siskiyou Artists Association Painting of the Month and Annual Show awards, and SAA Painting of the Year 2007. Art makes me happy.
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To read a 2005 interview with Marilyn Ellis, CLICK HERE.
Marilyn Ellis
phone: 530-841-1828
email: corgies@hotmail.com