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Canopy
2022 The Queen's Green Canopy, Sotheby's London for details see overview The artist Mary Anne Aytoun Ellis drew 20 ancient trees in an exceptional project in collaboration with The Queen's Green Canopy in celebration of Her Late Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Read more -
Leporello
2022 Sotheby’s London for details see overview LEPORELLO Commissioned by The Queen’s Green Canopy and exhibited at Sotheby’s London in 2022 Link to foreword by King Charles III An Artist's Proof of the Leporello has been acquired by the British Library for the National Collection. 12 photographic reproductions of artworks by Mary Anne Aytoun Ellis Tree marbled... Read more -
The Wood I Know
2021 Portland Gallery London for details see overview Catalogue Introduction A couple of years ago, conscious that my wife's birthday was looming and I had as yet bought her nothing to mark it, I found myself window shopping among the retail therapists of london searching for inspiration. My odyssey had barely started as I headed up St. James's... Read more -
Palimpsest
2017 Portland Gallery London Catalogue Introduction Chaos and anarchy may not be the first words that come to mind when you see Mary Anne Aytoun Ellis’ paintings, but this is how she recently described her creative processes when I interviewed her in her studio at the foot of Lewes Castle in East Sussex. She... Read more -
Place and Memory
2014 Portland Gallery London for details see overview Catalogue Introduction Mary Anne Aytoun Ellis' highly distinctive paintings are both subtle and seductive. Her personal lexicon of subjects and motifs is a vital product of her life experiences; with their muted greys and sepias, her paintings could perhaps only have been made in and of England. Two of her... Read more -
Michaelmas Journey
2012 Portland Gallery, London for details see overview Catalogue introduction Mary Anne’s work is sheer multiplicity. She picks a path through luxuriant growth, in order to expose the wealth of what there is to see. Come with me she seems to say. And we follow. On the way, our experience of each painting is of a constantly changing... Read more -
Thinking Places
2009 Portland Gallery London for details see overview Catalogue Introduction It was about 200 years ago that the practice of painting straight landscape began to attract a following. This explosion of interest, fuelled by the works of Turner, Constable and later Piper, Nash and Sutherland, has set up a curiously British interest in and following for fine landscape... Read more
