ELLIE FABE

                                              

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Ellie Fabe has a BFA from The University of Michigan School of Art (1983) and lives in Cincinnati with her architect husband and their two sons. Her watercolors and collages have been in group and one woman shows throughout the midwest and her work is represented in collections nationwide. Her new edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Illustrated By Ellie Fabe (beautypanicpress.com) has been well received with reviews from Publishers Weekly, AEQAI, and Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine.

 

 

I've always made art stemming from my need to put feeling in its place. Exploring memory—the icons and details that trigger it—connects me with a viewer through time and place. I use color to make sense of the natural and emotional world, catching it as it careens by, sometimes with just a simple figure ground. Impressionistic that way, I'm like a teenager sharing secrets on a turquoise princess telephone. 

 

I love watercolor, its immediacy and clearness of color, how it flows and moves and has a life of its own. Conte crayon, the tall dark and handsome stranger, comes to me in the form of a starry night. Colored pencils are the straight forward ones, allowing me to have at it. And oil pastels and old magazines cover up just about anything else.

 

- Ellie Fabe 

 

 

"A celebration and/ or retreat into the private, the personal, often associated with the works of extreme beauty and privacy; this work may overlap with the best feminist intention and represents a view of America which it may appear to in some cases celebrate."

- Daniel Brown