Ellen Gaube

Ellen Gaube
born: Scranton, Pa, USA
currently living in: Deep River, CT, USA

Artist Statement Drawing and Photography

Nature has always been my environment. My favorite childhood toys were flowers, rocks and sticks; my favorite tools a pencil and paper. This holds true today as I collect subject matter physically and with a camera on my rural property and hikes through conservation land. I consider myself a botanical artist through my documentation of natural forms in all stages of growth and decomposition.

Drawing is my great love. The materials are simple. My son presented me with a piece of bittersweet-wrapped wild cherry commenting “I thought you’d like to draw this.” That was the beginning of a body of work documenting the invasive, sinuous and dangerous beauty of Celastrus orbiculatus, Oriental bittersweet. I love drawing curves. I’m continuing new work illustrating curly willow, Corylus Avellana contorta and wild mountain laurel, Kalmia latifolia.

Although my photographic images are abstracted through digital manipulation, their source is always the natural world of plants, insects, rock and water usually from my immediate environment. I manipulate color and shape with digital filters that allow a great dea...

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts BFA, Painting; Minor, Art History

2019
The Artists of Gallery One at Zahn Gallery, Westbrook,CT

2018
LoosenArt: Surfaces, Galleria Millipiani, Rome, Italy
The Artists of Gallery One at The Lyman Center, New Haven, CT
Essex Art Association, “Odd Perspective,” Essex, CT
Essex Art Association, “Verb,” Essex, CT
Essex Art Association at Essex Corinthian Yacht Club, Essex, CT
The Leo House Gallery, New York, NY
New England Society of Botanical Artists, Newport Flower Show, Newport, RI
The Artists of Gallery One and Friends, Guilford Art Center Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT
Essex Art Association, “Journeys,” Essex, CT
Connecticut Academy of Fine Art 107th Exhibition, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT
Six Summit Gallery Salon Show, Ivoryton, CT
Connecticut Women Artists, Inc, Members Juried Show

2017
The Artists of Gallery One, "Revive, Reset, Respond," Marquee Gallery, New London, CT
Essex Art Association Exit Gallery Solo: "Scars, Wounds and Other Insults," Essex, CT
New Haven Paint and Clay Club 116th Juried Exhibition, Vernon, CT
Essex Art Association “Wild and Crazy,” Open Exhibition, Essex, CT
Connecticut Academy of Fine Art 106th Exhibition, Mystic, CT
Artbox.Projects: Basel 1.0, Basel, Switzerland
Essex Art Association “Whatever You Want,” Es...