Ellen Brook

Ellen Brook is a mixed media artist, and fabric and fashion designer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ellen began her artistic journey at age 40, after a lifetime convinced that she wasn’t creative. She reoriented her life from corporate communications to focus on her art. Ellen creates vibrant abstract mixed media paintings and ethereal silk hangings, and designs and creates luxuriously down-to-earth women’s apparel and accessories. Ellen combines gesture, intuitive marks, layers of texture and a passion for color to explore Eastern ideas related to the mind, the human condition, and the healing and energetic properties of beauty and color. Her current mixed media “Message in a Bottle” series explores themes drawn from the discovery of 100 letters written by her grandfather (whom she never met) as a young soldier in WW1.