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Elizabeth's studio/gallery is located 1/2-block west of the Old Courthouse, in the Old Clampitt Hardware Building.
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Watercolorist and papermaker Elizabeth Ellison is the owner and operator of Elizabeth Ellison Watercolors, a studio/gallery located in the old Clampitt Hardware Building on the town square in Bryson City, North Carolina, where she and her family have resided since the early 1970s. A native of Milton NC, Ellison is of Occaneechi Indian descent. Ellison has exhibited and sold widely throughout the United States for more than 30 years; and often teaches week-long workshops at various institutions, such as the North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville NC. Utilizing both traditional and oriental techniques - and often employing American Indian motifs - Ellison depicts the varied wildflowers, animals, human inhabitants, and landscapes of the Smokies region and beyond. Ellison frequently gathers and processes native Appalachian plants to make the handmade papers she incorporates into her paintings. She uses black willow, mulberry, cattail, papyrus, rush, iris, wisteria, yucca, raspberry, blackberry, and more. Ellison's pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor washes long have graced the work of her husband, writer/naturalist George Ellison, and others. Publishing venues include The Asheville Citizen-Times, Blue Ridge Outdoors, Outdoor Traveler, Friends of Wildlife: The Journal of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, High Vistas, and Chinquapin: The Newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. The exceptional quality and individuality of Elizabeth Ellison's works led to her inclusion in Fodor's Guide to the National Parks and Seashores of the East (1994). |
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Exhibitions and projects: You will find Elizabeth's work at her Bryson City studio, Summit One Gallery in Highlands NC, and in the Asheville NC area at The Design Gallery in Burnsville.
"Blue Ridge Nature Journal" Paintings, Summit One Gallery, Highlands NC. Commissioned
painting for Art Print of the Year, 2000
(solo exhibition) Appalachian Center, Carson-Newman College TN, fall 2000.
(solo exhibition) Shiele Museum, Gastonia NC, fall 1999. Native American Invitational, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro NC, fall 1999. (solo exhibition), Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross GA, spring 1999.
Watercolorist for character "Alice" in the movie Songcatcher, filmed fall 1999.
Illustrator for To Catch an Autumn, poems by Billy C. Clark. Wind Publications. |
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Elizabeth
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Visit our studio/gallery on Main St. in the Old Clampitt Hardware building |
Copyright Elizabeth Ellison 2002-08, All rights asserted & reserved. Webmaster: Deep Creek Arts |
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Dust-wrapper
painting and ink washes for, Ebbing & Flowing Springs by Jeff Daniel Marion
(Celtic Cat Printing, Knoxville TN), a 2003 Benjamin
Franklin Award finalist.
Cover artist for
Niche Gardens of Chapel Hill, NC, an award-winning
nursery specializing in the propagation of native plants.
Cover
illustration for Poetry in Prayer. 
Illustrator
for, The Chinese Poet Awakens by Jeff Daniel Marion.
Illustrator for To Find a Birdsong by Billy C. Clark.