Elizabeth Ellison

Watercolorist and papermaker Elizabeth Ellison is the owner and operator of Elizabeth Ellison Watercolors, a studio/gallery located in the old Clampitt Hardware Building on the town square in Bryson City, North Carolina, where she and her family have resided since the early 1970s. A native of Milton NC, Ellison is of Occaneechi Indian descent.

Ellison has exhibited and sold widely throughout the United States for more than 30 years; and often teaches week-long workshops at various institutions, such as the North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville NC.

Utilizing both traditional and oriental techniques - and often employing American Indian motifs - Ellison depicts the varied wildflowers, animals, human inhabitants, and landscapes of the Smokies region and beyond.

Ellison frequently gathers and processes native Appalachian plants to make the handmade papers she incorporates into her paintings. She uses black willow, mulberry, cattail, papyrus, rush, iris, wisteria, yucca, raspberry, blackberry, and more.

Ellison's pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor washes long have graced the work of her husband, writer/naturalist George Ellison, and others. Publishing venues include The Asheville Citizen-Times, Blue Ridge Outdoors, Outdoor Traveler, Friends of Wildlife: The Journal of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, High Vistas, and Chinquapin: The Newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

The exceptional quality and individuality of Elizabeth Ellison's works led to her inclusion in Fodor's Guide to the National Parks and Seashores of the East (1994).

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