The public acts as the driving force for Ellie’s practice as she uses her work to record every day observations. Ellie uses a number of mediums to convey her personal experiences such as gouache, acrylic, oil pastel and drawing ink which all knit together to form a visual diary. Phrases that the artist over hears in public also feature heavily throughout her practice to accompany drawings. With...

My work is a practice in transcribing, both visually and linguistically, the experience of isolation; it pursues those ephemeral moments between sensation and thought, between the acts of becoming and unbecoming. The figurative forms embody the tension between these two states.  These fundamental emotional experiences that create expansion or collapse within the mind are the moment the figurati...

This piece talks about the identity being kept secret behind bars of an American flag. Instead of wholeheartedly accepting our origins, we replace our heritage in order to fit into the society we live in. In this case, a Filipino is behind the strips of American flag that symbolises the different aspects of our life that is replaced with American traditions. 

A portrait I did of a good friend in oil paints. I accept commissions and I sell art over on Artpal/strawberripaints along with my Instagram @strawberripaints Tray 🍒🍓 (@strawberripaints) • Instagram photos and videos 513 Followers, 1,252 Following, 59 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Tray 🍒🍓 (@strawberripaints) instagram.com

More than a ticket to heaven my friend and saviour endeavours to win every aspect of my heart to triumph where I’m weak and I fail freely falling head over heels to find healing in the aching pain o strife where I’ve given life and limb to begin to understand that my beginning is not an end in itself but truly a transforming reality that transforms reality to bring heaven to earth and to go fur...

To comfort? Or to contradict?

@Arts_Speak Local TO artist, self taught 

@Arts_SpeakLocal TO artist , self taught