Ellen Essen

The strength of art belongs to those who understand that through it, is possible to express what is born within the artist's soul more than any text can do. Ellen Essen is one of the artists whose creative energy draws from a very particular sensitivity and emerges on the pictorial canvas thanks to an extraordinary force. The sign of colour and the artist's gesture are fulfilled simultaneously in the composition of works of art whose figuration is sometimes entrusted to the movement, other times to the depth of a gaze of his famous faces.

In the intensity of a glance, the path of the brush outlines the time that fixes the colour on the work, composing a dialogue between tangible reality and interiority. Ellen Essen offers the attentive observer the opportunity to access the world of emotions by reading a language made up of significant details. Entering the artist's expressive world means stripping oneself of any aesthetic prejudice to be completely infected by the chromatic movement of her bodies and the lively tension of her faces.

The artist, originally from southern Germany, has absorbed, over the years, the beauty of art history through her youthful studies, but it was her relentless, engaging passion and curiosity over the years towards painting, sculpture, and architecture, that have make her grow culturally and spiritually. Today, therefore, what she paints daily is an intimate language built on years of refined studies and experiments that she has cultivated every day of her life.

For those lucky enough to meet her in her exhibitions, in museums and galleries around the world, will have the opportunity to let themselves be overwhelmed by an irrepressible passion for the beauty of life, which she constantly celebrates through her painting.

The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was right when he said: "Mirrors are used to look at one's face, and art is used to look at one's soul", because this is precisely what happens when one enters the works of Ellen Essen.

The intense portraits of the artist pursue the objective of representing the distinctive traits of the soul of the painted face through a symbolic and metaphorical research of his singular expressive language.

The painter's works are poetically suspended in time and space, paintings that belong to deep creative reflections that stand out in their cultured chromatic and compositional expression.

Painting is an everyday experience that elevates Ellen Essen into the realm of the most interesting contemporary artists.

The artist can be found in the project of the gallery owner Robert L. Parcus (The Parcus Gallery), which is dedicated in a cultural and artistic mission whose foresight belongs to the realm of the beauty of art.

May 2, 2023