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I fell in love with the idea of painting long before I ever picked up a brush.  I was a child, living in New Hampshire, when I really noticed the landscape for the first time.  It was one of those quintessential fall days: light raking across unmown fields, the sky a piercing blue, trees tricked out in all their autumn splendor. I was dazzled.  I said, “Someday I’m going to paint all this”.  
 
I paint in watercolor, in part due to the range the medium affords me. I can paint with translucent washes and multiple glazes, or thick opaque color using just enough water to carry the pigment from the palette to the paper.  Watercolor lets me realize that same visceral response, that excitement at light and color, that is the beginning of each of my paintings to this day.

Ellen Hopkins Fountain
2021

Education
BFA  Painting and Drawing, Carnegie Mellon University
Additional Studies:
​Eric Aho, Paul Ching-Bor, Lois Dodd, ​Skip Lawrence, Thomas Sgouros

Solo Exhibitions
Hopper House, Nyack, NY 2017
Feature Artist, A.I.Friedman, Port Chester, NY 2016
The Lodge Gallery, Hawley, PA  2016, 2007
Village Hall Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY  2015
Greene Art Gallery, Guilford, CT  2014, 2010, 2004, 2002
Riverwinds Gallery, Beacon NY 2014
Smilow Center, Yale, New Haven CT 2013
Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY  2013
Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie, NY 2012
Martucci Gallery, Irvington, NY  20010
Chappaqua Library Gallery, Chappaqua, NY  2009
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY   2008

The Hudson River Gallery & Conservators, Yonkers, NY  2007
Images Art Gallery, Briarcliff Manor, NY  2006
Anderson-Chase Gallery, Katonah, NY  2005
Walker-Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ  2005
Freelance Café, Piermont, NY  2004
Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY  2003, 2001
Wave Hill House, Bronx, NY  1999
Allen Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY 2000, 1998, 1997
The Donald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY  1997


Selected Juried Exhibitions
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Art of the Northeast, Silvermine, CT 2017
The Color of Light , Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2017
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibition, The Salmagundi Club, New York, NY 2016
​In Media Res, Johnson, VT 2014
Small Works, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY 2015, 2012
Hudson River Landscapes, Dominican College, Orangeburg, NY 2009
Westmoreland Arts National, Greensburg, PA  2008
National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY  2008
Hopper House Juried Exhibition, Nyack, NY  2008
Postcards from Within, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY  2007
In a Pastoral Setting, Shelburne Farms Coach Barn, Shelburne, VT  2007
Eleven @ 122, Kiesendahl & Calhoun, Pleasantville, NY  2007
Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD  2005
NY Plein Art Painters, Beacon, NY  2005
A Summer’s Evening, Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT  2004
Local Color, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY  2003
Korea International Art Fair, Busan, Korea  2002
The Iridescent Watercolor, Noel Fine Art, Bronxville, NY  2001
Cowparade, Stamford, CT  2000
Landscapes of the Lower Hudson, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY  2000
Art on Main Street, Yonkers, NY  2000
Rye Arts Center Juried Exhibition, Rye, NY  1999   
Rivers of Time, Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY  1999
The Hudson Valley, The River Gallery, Irvington, NY  1999
Three Abstract Women, The Art Workshop, Dobbs Ferry, NY  1998
Grass Roots, The Municipal Gallery, Hastings, NY  1998
Greenwich Arts Center Gallery, Greenwich, CT  1997
Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY  1996


Selected Collections
Smilow Center, Yale, New Haven, CT
Pfizer, Incorporated, New York, NY
Ginsburg Development Corporation, Valhalla, NY
Yonkers Public Library, Yonkers, NY
Jazz Forum Arts, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Ardsley Public Library, Ardsley, NY


Awards
Art of the Northeast, Patricia Warfield Jinishian Award for Painting, Silvermine CT 2017
The Color of Light, Third Place, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury VT 2017
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Exhibition, Bronze Medal, Painting, 2016

Artist Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Art of the Northeast Watercolor Award, Silvermine, CT
Winsor & Newton Painting Award
Fabriano Watercolor Award


Publications
The Hook Magazine, 2011
The Rivertowns Enterprise, Featured Article, 2010 and 2005
American Artist Magazine, Article by M. Stephen Doherty, New York, NY  2006
Catskill Mountain Guide, Featured Artist, New York, NY  2006
The New York Times, Review, Dominic Lombardi, 2004
Watercolor Magic, Article, F&W Publications, Cincinnati, Ohio 2003
Watermedia Focus, CJ Publications, Boone, NC  2002
The Best of Watercolor, Rockport Publishers, Inc., Gloucester, MA  2002
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Related Experience
Director, Rivertowns Arts Council, 2001 ~ 2005
Director, Ardsley Public Library, 2006 ~ 2011
Co-Director, The Donald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY  1998 – 2007
Painting Instructor, Scarsdale Art Association 1997 – 2002
Painting Instructor, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson 1996
Member, United Scenic Artists, Local 829, 1976 ~ 1989

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