Artwork Description
Ellen Koment – Black meets White
Dimensions: 40 x 30″ size type
Year: 2023
Medium: encaustic on panel
I have been painting for over fifty years. My first shown work was when I was a student at the HS of Music and Art in NYC, and a painting was on a poster in the subway. I then went on to Cooper Union Arts School and have a Masters in Art from UC Berkeley. But through all the various stages of my life, PAINTING HAS BEEN MY CONSTANT. It was oil painting of the figure and the Landscape through the years in CA, you can see many in a book that shows the collection of my work by Dr. Jack Leissring called Ellen Koment: “The Internal Becomes the External”. Then about 25 years ago, someone gave me some Wax, and I began to explore the ancient world of Encaustic, first landscapes and figures, but now probably best known for what has become to be called “Paper Pours”, paintings which require an absolute presence to what you are doing.