Lives and works: Lahonce France
Website: https://www.andreaellis.eu/
E-mail: andreaellis5@gmail.com
Skills/disciplines: hand/machine embroidery, digital/electronic, photo, paintings/2d, mixed media, workshop.
Types/Themes: architecture/urban planning, figurative art, large format, medium format, small format, cabinet of curiosities, climate/ecology/environment, colors, fragility, light/shadow, landscape, transparency.
Unique piece
Esprit de Venise 1
Discipline: Assembly/gluing
Unique piece
Toile de jouer (Jouy)
Discipline: Assembly/gluing
Unique piece
Lucrezia
Discipline: Tables/2D
Unique piece
Floating Worlds 2
Discipline: Tables/2D
Unique piece
Empreinte 1
Discipline: Tables/2D
Unique piece
Floating Worlds 1
Discipline: Tables/2D
Unique piece
Hooked
Discipline: Tables/2D
Unique piece
Hanging Gardens 2
Discipline: Tables/2D
Unique piece
Reflections on Guidecca
Discipline: Tables/2DAndrea Ellis
Galerie Magasin Bellevue
Nina Andro
Salies de Béarn
Bearn
France
Solo show
"Apres Mariano Fortuny"
Galerie Beaurepaire
Espace Beaurepaire
Paris 10
Ile de France
France
L'Est en pierre, papier et ciseaux
L'Est en pierre, papier et ciseaux
Maison Hargues, Sauveterre de Bearn
Vera Bibinova
Sauveterre de Béarn
Béarn
France
Domaine de Sengresse
Summer Exhibition
Souprosse
Michele Mc Lusky
Sengresse
Nouvelle Aquitaine
France
Phoenix Art Space
Brighton Print Fair
Lewes
Lewes
Sussex
England
The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair
Battersea Park
Catharine Miller Gallery
London
Greater London
England
Print on Paper
Catharine Miller Gallery
Catharine Miller
London
London
England
Affordable art Fair
Battersea Park
Catharine Miller
London
Greater London
England
The Other Art Fair
Truman Brewery
The Other Art Fair
London
Greater London
England
Nomade's Land
Gallery le Marais
Galerie 13 Avril
Paris
Ile de France
France
Textiles of Mankind
London
Mary Schoeser
London
London
England
VAWAA
Vacation with an Artist
My studio
Bayonne
Nouvelle Aquitaine
France
BA Hons Degree in Textiles and Fashion
Winchester Art College
Winchester
Hampshire
England
Entrée en Perfectionnement at Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg
Ecole des Arts Decoratifs
Strasbourg
Alsace
France
I have arrived at my unique way of working after many years of experience as a designer, lecturer and artist; always collecting ideas in my sketchbook; an exhibition, journey or photograph can all be the inspiration for my pieces.
With a background as a textile designer for fashion; colour, texture and pattern are still very important in my work.
An idea often begins by taking apart an image digitally, creating layers. These layers then become separate silk-screens. Using dyes and innovative techniques on fabric I am able to work in a similar way to oil painting, adding and subtracting colour and texture.
The technique of devore, where the fabric is burned away with an acid paste, enables me to create super-imposed transparent images on two planes; the front image is sometimes enhanced or contradicted by the image behind thereby allowing me to explore ideas and create stories.
My work is widely collected and exhibited through galleries and art fairs both in the UK and France, where I am currently living and working. It is also featured in the book “Textiles, Art of Mankind” by Mary Schoeser.
I am open to proposals for showing my work in solo or group exhibitions, and to commissions.
