Joseph Ellis

Joseph Ellis lives in Greensboro, North Carolina in United States. For Joseph Ellis painting is a language that can reach out to everyone. The paintings of Joseph Ellis go beyond time and get in touch with all sorts of people across various cultures, classes and intelligence. For Joseph Ellis painting is a medium of communication. He paints images that are familiar and can be easily understood by all kinds of people. Joseph Ellis works in various media. But his preferred medium is oil.

Joseph Ellis takes interest in the instinctive reaction of the viewers on seeing the painting. The ability of the viewer to connect the figures and images and form a personal narrative or interpretation of the drawing is interesting to Joseph Ellis. Each of the art works of Joseph Ellis are a reference to the vocabulary and history of painting. Joseph Ellis hopes to consume his paintings through his investigations of the viewers' instincts. He wants to find the basis behind a painting that brings it into contemporary consciousness.

Joseph Ellis believes in the ability of paintings to be able to change the world. The works of Joseph Ellis are intended to raise awareness of the time in which we exist and also break through the restraints set by language barriers. The most considerable issue addressed in the art of Joseph Ellis is that of duality, contrast and opposing elements. Joseph Ellis incorporates conversations into his paintings. Each of his works contains elements of clarity, confusion, contentment, desperation and possibility. Famous paintings by Joseph Ellis are Demise of a Newborn Angel, Wonder Woman Portrait, Tori Amos Portrait, Joan Osborne Portrait, The Bacino di San Marco, Venice, Cathedral of Batalha and Amsterdam .