December Issue 2000
Summer House Gallery in Highlands, NC, Hosts Works by Elizabeth Ellison
Watercolorist and papermaker, Elizabeth Ellison, will exhibit at The Summer House Gallery, in Highlands, NC, Dec. 2 - 30.
Elizabeth Ellison
Ellison has exhibited and sold widely throughout the United States for more than 25 years. She teaches week-long workshops at the John C. Campbell Folk School in watercolor painting and papermaking from plant fibers. Utilizing both traditional and oriental techniques, and sometimes employing American Indian motifs, Ellison depicts the varied wildflowers, animals, human inhabitants, and landscapes of the Smokies region. Elizabeth Ellison: Watercolors was selected for inclusion in Foder's Guide to the National Parks and Seashores of the East (1994).
In addition to painting on commercial paper stock she gathers and processes native Appalachian plants to make handmade papers. Black willow, mulberry, cattail, papyrus, tush, iris, wisteria, yucca, raspberry, and blackberry are sonic of the plant fibers she has experimented with and incorporated into paintings. Ellison's pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor washes have illustrated the work of her husband, writer/naturalist George Ellison, and many others in various publications, including the Asheville Citizen-Times, Blue Ridge Outdoors, Outdoor Traveler, Friends of Wildlife: The Journal of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation,.High Vistas, and Chinquapin: The Newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. She is also the catalogue cover artist for Niche Gardens in Chapel Hill, NC; and is a field trip leader for the Landscaping with Native Plants Conference each July hosted by Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee NC.
Ellison is living in Bryson City, NC, but is a native of Milton, NC, and is of Occaneechi Indian decent. She and her husband, George, have resided in the Great Smokies region of western NC since the early 1970's.
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