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Miranda Ellis
I
trained at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts and
at the Royal College of Art. I have had painting scholarships
in Italy and South Africa and have exhibited in various
exhibitions in London and Sussex, including the Mall
Galleries, the Royal Academy 'Summer Show' and the
Sussex Open Shows at the Brighton Art Gallery. I was
a National Prize Winner and First Prize Regional Winner
at the 'Laing Art Competition' and Winner of the 'Art
Newspaper Award' at the 'Discerning Eye'.
Painting influences began with the German Expressionists
in which I used colour to express mood and then light.
This led to colour fields and some abstraction but
now as a result of direct from life studies I'm back
to a renewed interest in form, usually non-static
and the root reason for that 'poetic' moment. Subjects
and inspiration range from shock encounters in foreign
lands to the very familiar. There is a narrative element
in which a particular moment is expressed, but ultimately
I hope that light, colour, form and mood are frozen
to express my own space and experience.
