Painting titled "Receiving the Gift" by J S Ellington, Original Artwork, Acrylic

Receiving the Gift (2016) Painting by J S Ellington

Original

Not For Sale

Seller J S Ellington

Certificate of Authenticity included

This artwork appears in 12 collections

Original Artwork Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 30in, Width 30in
Categories Paintings under $1,000 Abstract

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When I approach an abstract painting, I do so with a deliberate surrender to the process. It is not a thought endeavor but a guided, felt one.

I felt I was receiving a gift as I allowed the process, feeling every stroke as color announced itself and moved onto the canvas.

There is always some hint of infinity in my works. The colors are strong in the focal center of this piece which floats and moves in a never-ending pastel space.

The painting never allows the eye to stay in one place long, pulling it from indistinct soft blur to poignant, focused movement.

The blue is electric, the blood red is clear and strong, the green is cool and almost thirst-quenching. These colors contrast sharply with the subtle reddish-brown, the hints of reddish-pink, the soft yellow, and the pale leaf green of the background.

This original painting is gallery wrapped and fitted with hanging wire. The edges are painted in the mood and colors of the face of the painting so that it s ready to hang without framing. The finish is Liquitex Gloss Medium and Varnish. It is signed. The weight listed is the shipping weight. Packing and shipping costs are included.

J S Ellington

United States

I am a native West Texan. My life began with a very linear-logical interest in science and what it can seem to prove. In my twenties, I attended The University of Texas at Austin and earned a degree in pharmacy.

During an ensuing 37-year career as a pharmacist, it slowly began to dawn on me that you can't put God in a test tube. I started turning more toward creative endeavors to find meaning.

I had painted all my life because my mother and her sisters always painted when I was growing up, and I did too. My Aunt Patsy Dolliver spent the most time with me, instilling a passion for art and teaching me to paint as we went. I decided to do my best to apply the" let go and let God" to find out what could express through me as art after I retired from pharmacy.

In the past, I had hurriedly and halfheartedly painted, but I took it up again with more surrender and curiosity, and without the feeling of having to rush (without a job taking up so much time).

I became a resident artist at Studio 13 in Abilene, which is a community of resident artists and associate artists whom I love and admire. My new art interests have afforded me a sense of direction, belonging, passion, and satisfaction that I have not previously known.

I feel that I am able to get my personality out of the way most of the time and let the paintings kind of come to be on their own. I don't "know" how to paint. I feel my way into and through each project. There is great satisfaction in getting to participate in that process. I enjoy realism, surrealism, and abstract art--basically anything to do with color.

On August 6, 2018, my Aunt Patsy Dolliver passed away. She signed her paintings "von." That is the first part of our family name, von Roeder. For the rest of my life, I will place von somewhere in each painting to ackowledge the crucial part she played in my passion for art. "A Shady Country Road" and "A Place to Contemplate Memories" are the first into which I added "von."