Elan Vital Painting

Ethel Vrana is an abstract painter from Ithaca, New York, whose work has been exhibited regionally in both solo and group shows. Her work is owned by collectors in the United States, England, Austria, Sweden, Australia and Japan. Vrana has been painting since she was 14, when she received her first professional set of oil paints for her birthday. Her interest in painting led to a BS degree in Fine Art and Philosophy from the University of Rochester. Early in her career, Ethel painted impressionistic landscapes which later evolved into abstract expressionism. Currently her abstract paintings are inspired by her interest in the spacial relationships of forms. Of her current paintings she says, "I am intrigued by the endless variety of compositional structures and evocative arrangements of shapes, lines, and colors.""