My Artweeks 2022 exhibition is happening both on my website and in real life. I'm showing airy, contemporary abstract works on paper, in watercolour, water-based mixed media and drawing. There are 60 framed pieces to see. And more in the browsers.
The exhibition catalogue is on my website during Artweeks, and the in-person studio exhibition is open:
• Saturday 7 May: 12 noon - 6pm
• Sunday 8 May: 12 noon - 6pm
• Friday 13 May: 2 - 8pm *late opening & closing*
• Saturday 14 May: 12 noon - 6pm
• Sunday 15 May: 12 noon - 6pm
Otherwise, visits are by prior appointment only.
COVID awareness: The studio exhibition will be ventilated, with hand-sanitiser and masks available. Even if cases are dropping, visitors are asked to be understanding that other visitors may, for good if hidden reasons, prefer social distancing and mask-wearing.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2022:
June: Artist in Residence at Jelly, Reading.
July: Group exhibition, art_house_life, Ventor (during Ventnor Fringe Arts Festival), Isle of Wight.
August: Teaching summer workshops at Waterperry Gardens, near Wheatley, Oxfordshire.
September: Exhibition (lead artist) at ronapainting gallery, Oxford.
September: Artist in Residence at The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford.
September onwards: Teaching my autumn/winter courses (details to be announced).
BIO:
Ella studied MA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (2008-10, with Distinction), and BA hons Textile Art also at Winchester (2005-08, First Class).
National selected exhibitions include the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Open (2021), Royal Cambrian Academy Open (2021), Bath Society of Artists Open (2021), and Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Competition, Bankside Gallery, London (2017-19).
Solo exhibitions include Sound of Trees, Rookley Manor Studio Gallery (2019), University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry (2006), and Green Fuse, The Wall Gallery, Ely (2005).
In 2020, she received an Arts Council England National Lottery award for Twelve Artists at Home Residency with Jelly Arts, Reading.
Her work is in the collections of the University of Oxford Wytham Woods Research Station, the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and the Perse School, Cambridge.
Ella was Visiting Lecturer in Life Drawing at Winchester School of Art (2010-11) and Visual Arts Therapist at The School of Life, London (2013-17). She now runs her own independent programmes of innovative drawing and painting workshops for adults.