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Ellen Hilger is highly concerned with the way
light and color can evoke the viewer’s emotion.
“I seek to produce images where color and line,
composition and mood all come together into
an image that really elevates the viewer’s
awareness and changes something for that
person”.
Her father, an accomplished painter, and her
uncle, a watercolorist, began Ellen’s artistic
training early on. She studied formally at Parsons
School of Design and the School of Visual Arts
in New York. Originally a native of Essen, West
Germany, she came to the United States as a
child. At a young age she immersed herself in
museums and galleries and was particularly
thrilled with Impressionist printmaking.
She has an affinity for the landscape, using for
her work the rich velvety colors available in
nature. “Artists take everyday things that you
see and show them in a more intense way”.
she explains. “My work is representational, and
yet created in my imagination. I invent
landscapes. There is nothing that I do that you
could actually look out a window and see
entirely”.
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