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  • Lady Luck
    Acrylic & Mixed Media
    16" x 15"
  • Dare to Dream
    Acrylic & Mixed Media
    17" x 17" x 2"
  • Ray of Sunshine
    Acrylic & Mixed Media
    16" x 15"
  • Green Fairy
    Acrylic & Mixed Media
    16" x 15"
  • All turned around
    Acrylic & Mixed Media
    17.25" x 19"

Ellen Marlen HamreEllen Marlen Hamre

Ellen Marlen Hamre

Reveries
October 13 - November 2, 2006 Reception: Thursday October 19, 2006 6-8 PM

Press Release

Award-winning Norwegian artist and web designer, Ellen Marlen Hamre brings her eye for color and geometric harmony to spirited works of playful abstraction and decorative delight. Emphasizing freshness and spontaneity over detail, Hamre clearly uses line, color, and motif as principal means of expression; but it is her sprightly characters that steal the show. Cartoonishly stylized and utterly original, topsy-turvy female figures cocooned in tube-like dresses spring from unexpected angles, peek coyly around corners, but more often than not assert themselves front and center as the life of the painting. Exuding optimism and palpable joy, fiery hues burst from their heads like wild crowns, sweep implausibly to the side, or lift impossibly skyward in total defiance of gravity. Characterized by these signature figures and rectilinear patterns which form the basic structure of her compositions, Hamre gives the impression that each painting is a fragment of a larger work, a continuing story. Working primarily in acrylic but also in watercolor, Hamre infuses basic forms with rhythm and personality, using bold color as well as vertical and horizontal lines to support, accent and frame these vibrant projections of her own enthusiasm.



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