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Ellen lives and works on the edge of Topanga Canyon. The city is close. Its energy is constant and busy. Landscapes are the balance, not an escape, but a place to find rest. A place to land, for all of us living in the middle of everything. 

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Open Spaces define beauty, effortlessly turning heads.

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They are some of the last places where nothing is performing to attract attention. The sky doesn't try. The land doesn't explain itself. The forest doesn’t compete with the valley.

 

Ellen paints landscapes not because they're beautiful but because they aren't trying to become.

She begins with texture on a white canvas. Feeling calmness and centering this way, finding where to start. Texture first, later some color, then depth, then shadow.

And the Open Space comes alive.

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