Check out Ellen Dieter’s Artwork

Today we’d like to introduce you to Ellen Dieter.

Ellen, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I grew up in Cleveland Ohio. My grandmother often took me to the Cleveland Museum of art to visit the galleries and have lunch after. I believe that this is where the desire to be an artist was born. Roaming the magical galleries of the knights, the Greek statues and the Medici paintings were my favorites at the time. I was 5 when we started this ritual. During High School, I attended night classes at The Cooper School of Art, a commercial school in downtown Cleveland.

The portfolio I created there, earned me acceptance to the Cleveland Institute of Art. Upon completion of my studies there, I traveled to Europe and eventually studied at L’Ecole des Arts Applique. During the 10 years that I lived in Paris, I had numerous solo exhibits and participated in group exhibits in Paris and its suburbs. This was during the 80’s!

I returned to the states in the 90’s and for the next 20 years, spent the time raising my daughter. During this time, I worked as an art teacher at Children’s Creative and Performing Arts Academy, danced with City Moves Dance Foundation, and eventually worked as Company Manage for the renowned Old Globe Theatre.

In 2007 I recommitted myself to my art and painting, as well as began to travel back and forth to Hawaii.

I have had multiple solo and group exhibits in both Southern California and Hawaii. Most recently, an invitational solo at the Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California. I have also shown in many galleries such as The William D. Cannon Gallery in Carlsbad, CA. the L Street Gallery, Martha Pace Swift Gallery, The San Diego Art Institute in San Diego and the Cedar Street Gallery, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Kailua Gallery in Kailua, Hawaii to mention a few.

I have earned multiple awards in painting and in 2011 was honored to have been invited by Alexander Salazar to be the Artist in Residence at the Alexander Salazar Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. Almost immediately following that, Cedar Street Galleries of Honolulu, Hawaii offered me a similar experience along with my first solo in Hawaii in 2012.

Recently I was asked to teach at Arton30th in San Diego, CA bringing my career full circle. I am blessed beyond anything I could ever imagine. I love painting, I paint every day. My life is art. I love life and I love art.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I am a painter. This is what I do, what I love, my passion and my vocation. When I paint, I throw caution to the wind, letting it out, expressing from the inside, deliberate, yet free… arbitrary, yet intentional. Moving paint around, mixing colors, trying new ideas thrills me and I cannot not paint.

My work is about the process. The image often comes secondary to the actual art making. I tend to work a lot in the abstract world of shape and color, line and form, painting intuitively, one brush stroke leading to the next. I find that there is a poetic spirituality in the process. Figures or landscapes may appear. Lines cross the canvas, words pop up out of nowhere. What happens next can be surprising and exciting. There is a definite chaos through which each work evolves. What is left behind me be visible or not, but I always know it is there. Creating, destructing, recreating….

Figuring it out, as in life.

I always hope that the take is away is a joyful experience. That the viewer can see and relate to an experience, whatever that experience may be for him or her. And also see that there is a process of decision making, again, as we do in life.

How can artists connect with other artists?
find a community, a group of likeminded artists. In San Diego, Arton30th, The Studio Door, San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild, Oceanside Museum of Art Artist Alliance, go to art openings even if you aren’t in the show. support your fellow artists. create a group yourself where you meet regularly to talk art.

Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
Right now I am represented by Adelman Fine Art Gallery in Little Italy, San Diego, 

CA as well as Cedar Street Galleries in Honolulu, Hawaii.
http://www.cedarstreetgalleries.com/bin/works.cgi?Artist=DieterEllen

http://ellendieterartist.blogspot.com/

https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/662958

Contact Info:

• Website: http://ellendieterartist.blogspot.com/  https://adelmanfineart.com/artist/ellen-dieter/
• Email: ellendieterartist@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellendieter
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ellendietrartist
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ellendieter

Image Credit:
Ellen Dieter

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