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About Ellenie
Ellenie’s attraction to drawing and color came about at an early age, as she and her sister would lay on the floor and color in coloring books for hours at a time. They both began drawing from memory and their love of animals. They later were told that their mother was also an accomplished artist of animals. Many family relatives are also artists.
She explored many areas of art, such as Interior Design, Floral Design, Drawing and attended many classes in Ceramic. She was introduced to color while attending Yuba College. One project was mixing paint to make a color chart of the entire spectrum of the wheel.
Ellenie transferred to CSU Sacramento, where she studied with the many renowned artists/instructors from Sacramento, the Bay area, and Chicago. Artists and fellow students made the Art Department the most creative in years. The influences were bountiful. Her art was influenced by some of the great masters, such as Vermeer, with focus on light and design and the impressionists like Matisse, Van Gogh and Gauguin. Her instructors gave her so much encouragement and she grabbed golden nuggets from all of them. Her master’s instructor introduced her work to his gallery owner in NYC, Nancy Hoffman. She was so impressed and wanted to see more.
As she continued her art, she developed her own primitive style, using color, patterns and design to create a space in time from her own world. She painted scenes, objects she collected and places where she lived. These pieces of art were in colored pencil, watercolor and oil on Canvas.
Ellenie began exhibiting her art in the Sacramento gallery arenas, and many group shows. She entered several invitational-judged shows, receiving “Best of Show” in the Camillia Festival, and California State Fair in Sacramento.
She entered the 48th and 50th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Invitational. Her painting “Her Web” was featured on the front cover of the Sunday edition in the “Valley Leisure” of the Sacramento Bee and in the Sacramento Union. Her watercolor “The Couch” was entered 2 years later and was purchased and is now in the permanent collection at the E.B. Crocker Museum in Sacramento, California.
