Ellie Eveleigh

I’m Ellie, an acrylic landscape painter currently living in South Devon. I graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2019 with a degree in English Language, but my heart has always been in the world of art. Throughout my life I have indefinitely felt a connection with the ability to create; my hands always drawn (quite literally) to pick up a pencil, a pen, a paintbrush. But with age and plenty of practice and experimentation, I found myself at a point where I was beginning to learn what subjects I had the most pleasure in creating and, for me, it was landscapes. I first discovered my fascination with mountainous landscapes when I was around 16, during my GCSEs at and early A-Levels during Art class. I think I derived it from my love of the fantasy genre where fantastical scale and magical, majestic lands shaped other worlds. Something about those vast, dramatic lands with almost incomprehensible scales made me want to recreate them somehow. Mountains hold a great majesty to them, and if I couldn’t see them in real life everyday like I dreamed, I would have to paint them instead! I learnt that I loved the way layering blocks of colour, representing the light and shadow, built the foundations of structure in a landscape scene. My work focuses on light and how it creates beauty and depth in both natural and manmade landscapes. I want people to feel a sense of nostalgia when they look at my work, using it as a form of escapism from everyday life, but - in particular with my manmade landscape paintings which are from photos of my own - as a way of seeing beauty in the everyday.