The paintings by Belinda Ellis can be described as a synthesis of the internal and external, colour relationships seen and imagined. The ideas are visual and the work communicates like music in a non-verbal way reflecting and evoking, not copying, nature. There is a symbiotic relationship between differing or opposing elements such as accident and order, translucence and opaqueness, stillness and energy. This creates a tension. Her practise is a continuing process, the paintings being offshoots of that process, each one bringing and feeding ideas for others. At the start the outcome is not known and the process is a dialogue between the artist and the work. 

'I like to experiment in painting, taking chances. As an abstract painter I find the endless possibilities it creates fascinating and exciting. It reflects the world we inhabit. Discoveries in science have altered our perception. Matter itself appears to behave in a random fashion.’

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Belinda Ellis is an artist living and working in North Oxfordshire. She studied Fine Art in London in the 1970s and participated in the Triangle Artists  Workshop in Upstate New York in 1986 and Art in Situ in the Drome, France in 2001 and 2006. She is an abstract painter working mainly in oils. She describes her work as a synthesis of the internal and external, colour relationships seen and imagined. 

Belinda has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recently she exhibitioned at the RWA Open Exhibition 170 and was shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize. In 2024 she won the Riverstone Living Award as part of the Women in Art Prize.

www.belindaellis.co.uk