Ellen Greup

"I balance color and shape". I play with them like a writer plays with sentences and a chef with ingredients”.

My work is a constant search for balance. I need structure, but I am afraid of boring. To find a way in that, I try to simplify the complexity of life through my art. I balance colour and shape. It is a constant game of adding & leaving out, of checking & letting go. The framed shapes give me structure and peace. The colour combinations create energy, sometimes serene energy, sometimes more lively energy. In this way I try to create the perfect harmony.

As a child I was already attracted to the dynamics of colours and surfaces. It is therefore not surprising that I attended the Utrecht School of the Arts and graduated there in 1996. After that I started working as a fashion designer, stylist, designer and trend watcher. In all these disciplines I was also continuously working with colour, shape and composition. The love for this is simply in my DNA.

Nowadays I work full-time as an artist

Technical School of Fashion Utrecht, the Netherlands

Academy of Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands

Barteljee Academy,
Abstract painting part 2

Academy Yvon van Bergen,
Intuitive portrait painting

Art exhibition, Huis Kernhem, Ede, The Netherlands
20-06-2026 / 05-07-2026 (only weekends)

Art exhibition, Unit4Art, Gouda, The Netherlands
10-12-2025 / 26-01-2026

Art exhibition, Oude Synagoge, Buren, The Netherlands
08-03-2024 / 10-03-2024

Art exhibition, MRC, Doorn, The Netherlands
09-01-2023 / 31-03-2023

Museum de Fundatie (Klimaat Expo 22)
Kasteel het Nijenhuis te Wijhe, the Netherlands
17 sept - 4 dec. 2022

Art exhibition, Cultuurhuis Doorn, the Netherlands
20 januari - 17 march 2022