Belinda Ellis

Belinda Ellis is an abstract artist. Her paintings are acrylic on canvas and watercolour on paper. She studied fine art in London in the 1970’s at John Cass College, North East London Polytechnic and did an advanced Painting and Printmaking course at St Martin’s School of Art. For many years she had a studio in a large warehouse in Wapping. Since 1989 she has worked at home in Bloxham, North Oxfordshire.

As well as painting the artist has recently returned to printmaking. Her etchings and monoprints are made with vegetable oil based inks. These are better for the environment and health as solvents are not needed for cleaning the plates.

Influences include surrealism, landscape and travel in places as diverse as the Outer Hebrides, Mongolia and Japan. The ideas are visual and the work communicates in a non-verbal way, conveying feelings and emotions. The work is a synthesis of the internal and external, colour relationships seen and imagined.

International workshops attended are the Triangle Artists’ Workshop run by the sculptor Sir Anthony Caro in Upstate New York and Art in Situ in the Drome, France. She has exhibited widely and her work is in collections in the UK, France, Sweden, China and America.