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Born in Cardiff, Wales, Jacqueline Ellins grew up in Toronto, Canada, where she studied drawing & painting at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD).
After doing post-graduate work in New York, she returned to Toronto to work as a fashion illustrator/editor for MacLean Hunter. In the 60's she taught drawing at Ryerson Polytechnical School and Seneca College. Visiting Europe in the 70's Ellins discovered the work of Richard Paul Lohse in Switzerland and this began her colour studies. Joseph Albers, Joan Miro, and so many of the abstract painters began to influence her work. She discovered too that she was also in tune with the New York Abstract Expressionists like Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell. In the 80's & 90's she exhibited at Atelier J. Lukacs, Toronto & Montreal; Yaneff Gallery, Toronto; 291 Gallery, 80 Spadina, Toronto; Marianne Friedland Gallery, Yorkville, Toronto. In July 2005 she participated in a group show of Contemporary Canadian Artists held in Bogota, Columbia, South America, organized by Westdale Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario. Ellins lives & works in a spacious studio in Toronto. She produces large canvasses in acrylic & smaller works on paper in mixed media. Her current work is emotional & visionary. Clarity of colour, vibrancy and interplay between colour areas is always of primary importance. "I place certain elements within the viewers reach to allow dreaming and seeing." Recently Ellins was invited to exhibit at Biennale Internazionale Dell-Arte Contemporanea Firenze Fortezza de Basso. Ellins Studio |
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