Ellie Hesse
Breezy Day in St Ives, c. 2018
Oil on canvas
H 50 cm x W 100 cm x D 3 cm
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. More on St Ives
Ellie Hesse was born in New York in 1972
but spent most of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales. Travel has always been
an important feature of her life since then, exploring Asia and South America,
as well as living and working in a number of different European countries.
Entirely
self-taught, Ellie is mainly known for her vibrantly coloured townscapes,
though in recent years, she has gone on to develop her art to include more
figurative work, focusing on the horse in particular. Ellie uses a variety of
different media and techniques, depending on the subject matter. The palette
knife is her tool of preference for building up layers of texture and depth of
colour.
By working intermittently on two very different subjects,
Ellie has found that the two approaches seem to cross-pollinate. The looser
drawing style of the equine work, feeding into the more structural work of
townscapes, bringing new vitality into the painting style as well as
composition, with the introduction of figures and animals. The creative tension
that arises from contrasting solid, architectural forms with the fluidity of a
natural and dynamic subject, creates a certain energy, keeping the painting
process always fresh and exciting.. More on Ellie
Hesse
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