Ella Carty

B.1971 Nairobi, Kenya. Ella is a painter who investigates her own experiences of the world. Her semi-abstract paintings incorporate a love of colour and pattern, absorbing and interpreting her surroundings she treads a fine line between representation and abstraction with the aim of sparking the viewer’s curiosity and igniting their imagination.

Ella’s new paintings centre around the home, personal connections to treasured objects and interior spaces: A kind of magic realism with heightened colours and shapes which blur the boundaries between what is real and what is fiction.

‘Sometimes I’m remembering the moonlight pouring over the kitchen table in the early hours, its unworldly light changing the colours of everything in the room. Sometimes I’m sensing into the joy of connecting with people and sometimes a painting is born out of almost complete fiction, it becomes itself without too much thinking, it just is.’

Ella has exhibited widely in the U.K. Her work is held by collectors in the U.S. Canada, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and in the U.K.

BA Fine Art: Painting: Cheltenham College of Art 1990 - 1994

Fellowship at The Digswell Arts Trust, Hertfordshire 2010 - 2014

Artist studio at Krowji Cornwall, UK. 2016 - Present

'10th Anniversary Show for Gala Fine Art' - Coningsby Gallery, Tottenham St. London 28 September - 4 October

'Show No. 4' Morgans Falmouth, TR11 3JH, September & October 2025

'Ordinary Beauty' The Point Contemporary, Cromer, Norfolk 25 April - 1 June 2025

Battersea Affordable Art Fair, with Gala Fine Art, 12 – 16 March 2025

Brussels Affordable Art Fair, with Gala Fine Art, 5 – 9 February 2025

Show No. 6’, Morgans Falmouth, TR11 3JH, 23 Nov 2024 – 4 Jan 2025

Amsterdam Affordable Art Fair, with Gala Fine Art, De Kromhouthal, Amsterdam 9 – 13 Oct 2024

‘Don’t Play with Your Food’ – Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley Nr. Leeds LS28 5UJ – 6 July – 1 September 2024

‘Where the Line Breaks’ Newlyn Society of Artists, Tremenheere Gallery, Cornwall 29 Mar – 21 Apr 2024

Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London 6-10 March 2024

‘Showcase’ Newlyn Society of Artists, Tremenheere Gallery - 14 October - 5 November 2023

Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam with Gala Fine Art 1-5 November 2023

Show No.1 Morgans Falmouth, TR11 3JH - 4 March-15 April 2023

Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Gala Fine Art Stand E8 - 20-23 Oct 2022

‘The Map is not the Territory’ Newlyn Society of Artists, Tremenheere Gallery - October 2022

'Near and Far' - Group Exhibi...