About
Ellie Snow is an artist based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her acrylic paintings explore emotional themes through abstracted gardens and landscapes. Her works often begin with nature photographs taken around her woodland home, often while exploring with her two children. These images are collaged and edited to create a rough draft for the painting. Ellie's main interest is the external landscape as a metaphor for the internal landscape, often referencing her experience of motherhood. The paintings that result are emotive and sometimes dream-like, balancing the beauty and complexity of being human.
Featured in Wrightsville Beach Magazine.
See the work in person
Ellie Snow is a member of the artist-owned Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. You can see her work in person there at 121 N. Churton St, Hillsborough, NC. Hours are Mon-Sat 10-6 and Sun 12-4.
Ellie is also a member of the Orange County Artists Guild and will be on the Open Studio Tour the first two weekends of November.
Additionally, she often has a tent at the Saturday Durham Craft Market. These dates are announced on instagram.
“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
—Mary Oliver