pop art

 Ellen Groth Reddie (Artoony) was born in Norway and is now living in the UK.

Ellen studied art at Einar Granum Kunstfagskole in Oslo, Norway. She has experimented with different ways of expressing herself ever since, using traditional oil painting, water colour, silk painting, and sculpturing with papier maché, in the course of travels that took her all across the USA and Europe, and found her living in Berlin as the wall came down. As a result, her inspiration comes from many sources.

Lately she started using the computer screen as a canvas, still freehand drawing but with the tools of today. Ellen loves vibrant colours and wants to create artwork that makes people feel good! Her works are only available as limited edition prints and she's never released more than 100 of the same design, regardless of size or output media.

Ellen's greatest fascination has always been with the early surrealists like Dali and Magritte as well as with 60's pop art - Roy Lichtenstein is her favourite. These lead her to describe her work as "pop art with a dash of the surreal". Sometimes it's quite a dash!

Past exhibitions include "The Art of Digital' - Ellen's work was one of 104 chosen by Paul Benezra (Director of San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art) from nearly 3000 entrants for a six week display in the Lyceum Theatre in the trendy Gaslight centre of San Diego, CA.

Forthcoming exhibitions include Warde-Nasse Gallery, New York in their January 2008 collection and a solo exhibition at Oval House Theatre in London.

Ellen's work is high resolution and has been output as framed prints up to 1m square, and used as CD covers, badges etc. Typically her prints are available off-the-shelf on A2 matte art paper, but enquiries for other formats are always welcome.

ellen@artoonfactory.co.uk
www.artoony.com