The lines of Ellie Grover - By N.L. Belardes
A young artist just out of art school interested in the rhythmic fashion of lines. I imagine her tracing details—her perceptions of reality—of an object perhaps, and then repeating such thoughts in childlike fascination, yet only truly capturing a vague outline. Haven’t we all been fascinated with the simple construct of a line at one time in our lives? Maybe you once picked up a crayon and drew the length of a hallway—the simple realization that you could tell a line where to go, what color it should be, and so on…
Ms. Grover in center...
Enter Ellie Grover, young artist from Christian university, Biola. Recently graduated, she’s entered the big world of a solo show at the Empty Space Theatre. Solo shows aren’t easy to come by. “Do people think such lines of continuation in your work come easy to you?” I asked. There is a simple, innocent, almost naïve grace to her paintings…
“I don’t really know. Maybe. It’s just been the way I look at art,” she said in a quiet voice.
I imagine perusers of Ellie's paintings standing in disbelief, wondering how an artist can take a line through fabric, acrylic, and pencil and keep it moving across a plane of color and texture… That is Ellie’s talent: to create lines in space that represent her imaginative view of real objects, real images; the tangible shapes that can be outlined in the world around her. Her lines aren’t just swooshes, but colorful and painstaking movements across the music of canvas. Such strokes along with a mixed media of acrylic and fabric are her chosen form that I can tell are still being developed, explored, created. This is the just the first show from a very young artist whose lines will grow increasingly complex with age.
Perhaps this is just my own fascination with lines, that as lines and their continuous patterns are contrived, the more ease a talented artist might have in an ability bring a viewer’s attention deep within a picture. “I learned at a very young age how to bring eyes into artwork,” she said. And thus the lines within her work draw the casual viewer’s eyes along simple paths that one moment simply traces a path across canvas, while the next moment might be outlining an imaginary object with colorful overlapping borders…
Please go look at her paintings now on display at the Empty Space Theatre.
Ms. Grover in center...
Enter Ellie Grover, young artist from Christian university, Biola. Recently graduated, she’s entered the big world of a solo show at the Empty Space Theatre. Solo shows aren’t easy to come by. “Do people think such lines of continuation in your work come easy to you?” I asked. There is a simple, innocent, almost naïve grace to her paintings…
“I don’t really know. Maybe. It’s just been the way I look at art,” she said in a quiet voice.
I imagine perusers of Ellie's paintings standing in disbelief, wondering how an artist can take a line through fabric, acrylic, and pencil and keep it moving across a plane of color and texture… That is Ellie’s talent: to create lines in space that represent her imaginative view of real objects, real images; the tangible shapes that can be outlined in the world around her. Her lines aren’t just swooshes, but colorful and painstaking movements across the music of canvas. Such strokes along with a mixed media of acrylic and fabric are her chosen form that I can tell are still being developed, explored, created. This is the just the first show from a very young artist whose lines will grow increasingly complex with age.
Perhaps this is just my own fascination with lines, that as lines and their continuous patterns are contrived, the more ease a talented artist might have in an ability bring a viewer’s attention deep within a picture. “I learned at a very young age how to bring eyes into artwork,” she said. And thus the lines within her work draw the casual viewer’s eyes along simple paths that one moment simply traces a path across canvas, while the next moment might be outlining an imaginary object with colorful overlapping borders…
Please go look at her paintings now on display at the Empty Space Theatre.
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