Ellen Hathaway grew up in Washington, a small southern town in eastern North Carolina. With degrees in Media, UNC-CH, and MT, The Curry School, UVA, this self-taught artist nurtures her painting through continual formal study, community with trusted artists and dealers. And most often asking “what if?”
She first showed with Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA, in 2007’s Emerging and Established then joined Joni Taube at Art3 Gallery in Manchester, NH, and Torrey Stroud, City Art Gallery, Greenville, NC. In Raleigh she collaborates with restauranteur Stephen Koster featuring her paintings in Bloomsbury Bistro, Five Pointts. Collected throughout the US, her works can be found in private as well corporate collections including Saint Mary’s School, Raleigh, The Battle Building at UVA Children’s Hospital, and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, Eastern Dermatology and Pathology, Greenville, NC, and Winchester Hospital, Winchester, MA, and liturgical art at Church of the Apostles, Raleigh, NC
Since 2014 Ellen has worked with mentor Stephen Aimone, Aimone Arts Services and author of Expressive Drawing and Design! exploring a more intuitive process.
After living in Charlottesville, VA for 30 years, she now resides in Raleigh, NC with husband Curtis, blessed by the joy of their daughters, the sweetness of their growing families, and working from her home Gateway Studio. Ellen sees the act of painting as one form of prayer.
Statement
Sensing beauty and mystery in life’s rhythms as endings flux into new beginnings, I respond by painting abstracted fragments of flowers or horizons coming into and out of being.
These gifts of nature touch me by revealing God’s grace of transformation and boundlessness purely by being what they are made to be. This is the essence of being alive and I want to echo this feeling with sensuous layers of paint, pencil, charcoal, pastel, or medium.
Each painting evolves in ways unimagined, like life taking unforeseen paths. Composition pushes outward resisting the boundaries of the canvas. Unsure if we’re experiencing a beginning or ending, looking closer reveals relationships, interconnectedness, and contrasts. The texture of the canvas lies next to more physically handled passages. Paint scrapped away, brushstrokes, veiled gestures, glops, drips, and splatters remind you someone made this.
Each painting ultimately becomes beauty and mystery of its own - invitation into a space to wander and wonder.
For art inquiries
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 434.981.3589
All works are the copyright property of Ellen Hathaway 2024
Professional photography of artwork by Doug Pitts