Ellen Von Wiegand

I am a London based printmaker and painter.

My work speaks to the sensitive among us. Those who experience intensely, who are overcome by beauty, who are overwhelmed by the rush and loudness of our world, and who wish to linger more fully in the present.

Our gift is knowing that the present moment holds all we need, and that by speeding through it we miss everything.

We are the deep feelers and seers of the world. The more we learn to enter into this realm of quiet the more richness we are able to perceive.

I express this sensitivity through the subject of the nude, more specifically my own nude body. Though I don’t see my images as self-portraits, but rather vessels for lived experience. My hope is that the viewer can sense themselves within the image. Each pose is chosen carefully to communicate something about the interior world of the figure, whether it be vulnerability, deep presence, strength, or something else entirely. What they have in common is the deep awareness of an inner state.

I felt throughout my life that my sensitivity and my need to take things slowly were things to be overcome. Through my work I discovered that these were not my failings but rather the place from which I found a voice. Though often chal...

Christie's Education, London 2011
John Cabot University, Rome, IT 2010

2023 Small But Mighty, London Bankside Gallery
2023 Fall Affordable art fair Battersea with Tom Cox Gallery
2023 Spring Affordable Art Fair NYC with DECORAZON Gallery
2022 Spring Affordable Art Fair NYC, JoAnne Artman Gallery
2021 Spring Affordable Art Fair NYC, JoAnne Artman Gallery
2019 Fall Affordable Art Fair official print artist, DECORAZON Gallery
2019 Spring Affordable Art Fair NYC with DECORAZON Gallery
2018 Summer Exhibition, Number Four Gallery, St. Abbs, Berwickshire, Scotland
2018 Peckham Craft Showcase, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London UK
2017 The Great Print Exhibition, Rheged Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria UK
2017 Artist in Focus, Southbank Printmakers, London UK
2017 In search of Ease, solo exhibition at cueB Gallery, London UK
2016 Southbank Printmakers, OXO Gallery, London UK
2016 Blue Art, Cass Art Kingston, London UK
2015 Chromart’s Tribes15, London, UK
2015 Solo exhibition, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome, IT