Ellen Lee is an Australian artist who works from her home studio in Echuca. Working with watercolour, natural pigmentation and graphite, her experiences in nature and her surroundings provide an abundance of inspiration for her large scale works on paper.
Her works are an exploration into the changes occurring within the landscape, derived from mappings and collections of marks from blind contour studies and observations of the environment. Ellen’s works are a meditative reflection of time spent in the environment, creating an immersive and sensory experience to bring the viewer into a gestural landscape of time, change and movement.
Ellen Lee is an Australian artist who works from her home studio in Echuca. Working with watercolour, natural pigmentation and graphite, her experiences in nature and her surroundings provide an abundance of inspiration for her large scale works on paper.
Her works are an exploration into the changes occurring within the landscape, derived from mappings and collections of marks from blind contour studies and observations of the environment. Ellen’s works are a meditative reflection of time spent in the environment, creating an immersive and sensory experience to bring the viewer into a gestural landscape of time, change and movement.
Ellen was the recipient of the 2024 The Theodore Urbach Landscape Painting Prize & Studio Scholarship. During the 3-month studio scholarship at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Ellen’s work focused on the surrounding wetlands and bird life of Victoria Lake.
Her first solo exhibition ‘Landscape; of sight, of sound’ as the 2023 SAM Spotlight Artist at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM). referenced her time in the local bushland of Banyula State Forest, with the scale of her works immersing the viewer in a meditative, visual landscape.
