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Ellen Skidmore (American, 1963)
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Ellen Skidmore
Dark as Night
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Ellen Skidmore
Tuck
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Viewing an Ellen Skidmore work, one cannot help but to see the deep pastels and delicate images that fill her paintings and give them a life all their own. Each character focuses the viewer’s attention on the fragility of human existence, yet the harmony that we maintain throughout our lives. With a dainty elegance and pose, each character fills the viewer with a true sense of strength and purpose. Music and nature seep into the heart of each Skidmore work, providing beauty on canvas. "The imagery of musical instruments is significant because of the unspeakable rich passion I hear from them." To her, life is a package, good as well as the bad, providing a spiritual balance that can not escape the viewer's eye. |
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1963, Skidmore and her family moved to Kentucky in 1981, where she attended college and her interest in painting blossomed. Her interest and development in painting grew amongst the rich background of the bluegrass hills and by her European travels. Ellen graduated with a B. F. A. in Studio Art in 1988 from the University of Kentucky and continued on with her graduate studies there. It was not until her search for a basic spiritual connection that Ellen began to paint seriously as a way to communicate not only with herself, but as a way to communicate nonverbally with others. Her art has become a way for her to share her spirit and compassion with the world around her. |
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Throughout her search and discovery of herself and the world around her, Ellen has been able to do what she dreamed of, to express her thoughts, her insight, and her spirituality to others through her art. Her struggles have brought her much success. She has been in numerous exhibitions throughout the states, and her pieces can be found in many private collections in the United States as well as in Europe. |
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