Blog – Arting.me by Irena Ellis

Opening the Arting Advent Calendar this year

Opening calendar in the run up to Christmas is one of my child-like joys. This year I have created one for me and my art/friends reflecting on the downs and hopes of this unusual and probably in many ways a very hard year. As we near its close, I reveal what messages each of the […]

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Art

#seemetoseeyourself online while in lockdown

Quick note from the studio again, so blessed and honoured to be creating more for the #seemetoseeyourself ongoing project portraits. See, I draw and paint women in #recovery, helping them see themselves for who they truly are…on the road, journeying, full of potential, full of light despite what they had been through or had put […]

March 29, 2020March 29, 2020

Art

First and Next Show, find ten differences, and an Invitation to Arting in the times of Corona 101

It will have been fourteen years since I first showed my art publicly (when I don’t count the picture of a sun when I was four that got hung up in the kindergarten, up on the noticeboard for all the parents to see…since then I don’t think my pieces ever made it up on […]

March 28, 2020

Art

Infinite Love and Gratefulness…and of course Arting…my Corona invitation for you…

First of all, I hope you are keeping well. From where I am, it looks we might be soon stuck at homes with this thing going on for quite some time… So while doing everything possible right on a personal level I have also decided to offer support to my fellow artingers in the following […]

March 15, 2020March 15, 2020

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About Me

Hi, I’m Irena. Previously co-curating the education department at National Gallery in Prague and working freelance as a artist/gallery educator in Czech and the UK, I have been sharing my daily studio a/musings here while in my #artofwithdrawal process.

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