About

ellen scobie

Ellen Scobie was born on Vancouver Island where she spent a lot of time outside. This was not due to any innate love of nature but rather to her mother's insistence on getting the kids out of the house.

She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BFA in art history and a surprising tolerance for fierce weather conditions. Although she loved Winnipeg, she set off for London where she worked with old printing presses, art nouveau letter blocks and other stuff you can only find in England.

The lure of the sun drew her to Spain where she hung around with a lot of arty types and developed an appreciation for fine Rioja and bacalau al pil-pil.

Back on the west coast Ellen created marketing communications for many years before giving it all up to devote her time to her creative projects. Countless hours spent in front of the computer combined with Ellen's early training in hand-pulled lithographic prints has led her to where she is today, creating mixed media works that meld the traditional art forms of photography, printmaking and painting.

Currently residing in beautiful Burnaby, BC she still tries to spend a lot of time outside mostly due to her own insistence to take a break from the computer.

Artist's Statement

Capturing both the natural environment and the built world in photographs, I reshape what I see for expressive purposes. I paint with pixels drawn from my photographs and then print the images onto canvas -- a melding of three traditional art forms. These interior landscapes are meant to be experienced on an emotive level to conjure up a past memory, an undefined sense of the familiar or a new, yet somehow appealing, expression. I work hard at developing a visually rich surface, using images plucked from time’s continuum, recombined and, reinvented, to create something new.

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