About Jan ELLEN

Biography

Jan Ellen is highly regarded as a strong, lyrical impressionist painter. Although she paints in pastel, acrylic, and watercolor, her focus for the past several years has been painting in oil with painting/palette knives. With pure skill and vision, Jan has radically taken knife painting to an astonishing level.

Her works stand out with a brilliance of rich color that can only be

produced with palette knife and a sure hand.

A professional artist with a Bachelor's Degree in Art, Jan Ellen has exhibited for over 45 years and has an extensive list of collectors, both private and commercial. Her largest private collector is Jean DeDouvre of LaLique Glass, who owns 14 paintings. Some of her more noteworthy commissions include: The Town Hall of Ft. Myers Beach, NFL Alumni and Northwestern Mutual.

She has judged local and national exhibits, was Executive Director of "International Art Search Inc.", is also a published author and popular lecturer, and has been featured in print and on television. She was nominated as an "Angel of the Arts" for Best Visual Artist in 2006 by the Alliance for the Arts.

Currently, Jan Ellen is represented by:
Guess-Fisher Gallery

985 Central Ave., Naples, FL