Art
Ballerina Tendu framed pastel painting
- Item Number
- 122
- Estimated Value
- 600 USD
- Opening Bid
- 200 USD
Item Description
"Ballerina Tendu" by artist, Ellen Minter
After a 30+ year career in the technology industry, it wasn’t until retirement that the artist, Ellen Minter, began studying art and painting on a full-time basis. Although she has worked in oils, water color, charcoal, and clay, Ellen's favorite medium is pastel.
The name pastel comes from the French word, pastische, meaning pure powdered pigment ground into a paste with a small amount of gum binder. The paste is rolled and dried in stick form with an infinite variety and value range of colors.
Ellen believes pastels offer the purest form of pigment giving paintings a vivid, luminous appearance. She has a passion for intimate, evocative, still life compositions focusing on light and shadows.
While living in Northern California, Ellen was an Artist-in-Residence at Healdsburg Center for the Arts. Exhibitions of Ellen’s art have been shown at the Graton Gallery, as well as the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Renowned still life artist Gerald Stinski is a major inspiration, as is pastel painter and teacher Sally Strand. Ellen has published a book on Stinski's work, The "Magic Realism” of Gerald Stinski.
Ellen has shown her work in numerous galleries, juried exhibitions, and art shows in Northern California’s wine country. Her work is also featured on FineArtAmerica.com. Ellen’s work is held in private collections and in homes across the U.S. She is a member of the Palm Springs Art Museum Artists Council and the Pastel Society of the West Coast.
More of her work can be seen at www.EllenMinter.com
Donated By:
Maria Roberts DeGennaro, Ph.D.
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