I have always loved magic, fairies, myths, alchemy, and the natural world. Maybe I was a Druid in another life, I don't know.  For many years, I painted what I could see, especially light through trees, and made it come to life with colors, lines and shapes that created movement. I was deeply inspired by my home state of Wisconsin, with its fall colors. I wanted to paint what I felt inside me, the excitement of the energies that create the physical world. I worked with symbolic shapes, dream images, and mythologized portraits of friends and family. Finally I began to paint abstract imagery, because nothing else quite expressed my inner feelings.

My studio is one bedroom of our house. I work in acrylic, partly because there are no fumes, and partly because I am impatient. Once I start on a painting, it is hard for me to stop until I feel good about the image.

I am excited to share these images with you. This is what I am doing here and now.You can also visit my older work in my many blogs.

--Ellen McCormick Martens