Monday, August 11, 2014

Our Featured Artist of the Day is Alice Anne Ellis!



Our Featured Artist of the Day is Alice Anne Ellis!

Alice Anne calls Scotland home, but has been living in Richmond for the past twenty-four years. She attended St. Andrews University in Scotland, where she majored in Philosophy and Art History for two years. She then moved on to earn her Master’s in Library Science. Alice Anne has also studied Studio Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Alice Anne has participated in numerous juried shows in the past year. She has been creating art all of her life. “I realized a long time ago that even if I sometimes do not have the opportunity to work at art intensively, I am much happier if I am in the process of creating something”, says Ellis. She has experience with many different types of mediums, but she has recently been more interested in working with mixed media on board. “This offers both flexibility and sturdiness, allowing vigorous layering. I also enjoy working with recycled materials”, explains Alice Anne.

Alice Anne Ellis has two pieces in our “Undiscovered.” Show, “Lineage: Redfern” and “Lineage: Blanket Stitch”. They are both apart of her series, “Lineage”, where she focuses on capturing movement in time. Ellis explains to Gallery Flux, “In the ‘Lineage’ series I wanted the paint to have some autonomy of movement, within parameters, and I then worked with the shapes it created. I love the lightness of touch and serendipitous effects this affords. Since one of the Lineage themes is the effect of time on a landscape, I like the appropriately organic quality of the process”.

In her “Lineage” series, Ellis is influenced by the concept of time. She is concerned with the way human history is recorded. Alice Anne references family trees in the titles and in the images. Ellis says, “We are all features in our familial landscapes, affected and influenced by the human topography around us. And I am interested in how a geographical landscape bears the marks of generations. For instance, an aerial view of the English countryside can reveal traces of Roman roads, medieval strip fields, and buried fortifications”.

Visit Gallery Flux to see Alice Anne’s work in person! We are open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm and Saturday 11am-4pm!




“Lineage: Blanket Stitch"
Mixed Media
24 x 24 in
$ 490.00 

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