Returning Swift – 290x170cm

Zoe Ellenberg
Australian Artist & Sculptor

Nature does not merely inspire Zoe Ellenberg, it speaks directly through her hand.
She paints at the edge of things. Where reef meets rainforest. Where mountains rise from the sea and the canopy breaks open into birdsong.

Trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Ellenberg has spent decades in pursuit of the world’s most luminous ecosystems: Cape Tribulation, Bali, Vietnam, the South Pacific. She returns each time with a canvas that breathes. Corals, orchids, mangroves, ferns. Her palette does not imitate nature, it inhabits it. Working in mixed media including enamel, acrylic, watercolour, ink, pastel, and spray, her paintings grow the way a forest does. Organically. Urgently. A vine of black enamel here, a vapour of shocking colour there, a drip of ink falling through tall canopy like rain.

To stand before her work is to remember that the world is magnificent.

Zoe Ellenberg
Australian Artist & Sculptor

Nature does not merely inspire Zoe Ellenberg, it speaks directly through her hand.
She paints at the edge of things. Where reef meets rainforest. Where mountains rise from the sea and the canopy breaks open into birdsong.

Trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Ellenberg has spent decades in pursuit of the world’s most luminous ecosystems: Cape Tribulation, Bali, Vietnam, the South Pacific. She returns each time with a canvas that breathes. Corals, orchids, mangroves, ferns. Her palette does not imitate nature, it inhabits it. Working in mixed media including enamel, acrylic, watercolour, ink, pastel, and spray, her paintings grow the way a forest does. Organically. Urgently. A vine of black enamel here, a vapour of shocking colour there, a drip of ink falling through tall canopy like rain.

To stand before her work is to remember that the world is magnificent.