Ellen Hopkins Fountain

Artist Statement

“I fell in love with the idea of painting long before I ever picked up a  brush. I was a child, living with my family 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.  One can paint with translucent washes and multiple glazes, or thick  opaque color using just enough water to carry the pigment to the  paper. Watercolor lets me realize that same visceral response, that  excitement at the light and color, that is the beginning of all my  paintings to this day. 

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Artist Resume

Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University

Solo Exhibitions: The Lodge Gallery, Hawley PA, 2019, 2016
Hopper House, Nyack, NY 2017
A.I.Friedman, Port Chester, NY, 2017
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

Selected Juried Exhibitions: The Color of Light, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT 2018
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe National Juried Exhibition, New York, NY 2017 We Are Rising: Women in Solidarity, Donald Gallery 2017
Salmagundi Non-Member Juried Show, New York, NY 2016
Paperworks, Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY 2015, 2017
In Media Res, Johnson, VT 2014
Small Works, Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY 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, 2016
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
Summer’s End, 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 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
Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 1996

Selected Collections: Smilow Center, Yale, New Haven, CT
UConn John Dempsey Hospital, Farmington 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: Patricia Warfield Jinishian Warfield Painting Award,Art of the Northeast,Silvermine,CT Second Place, The Color of Light, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury VT
Bronze Medal, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Juried Exhibition, New York NY
Watercolor Excellence Award, Salmagundi Non-Member Juried Exhibition Artist Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Artist Residency, Wiawaka, Lake George, NY
Art of the Northeast Watercolor Award, Silvermine, New Canaan, CT Winsor & Newton Painting Award Fabriano Watercolor Award

Publications: The Hook Magazine, 2011
The Rivertowns Enterprise, Featured Article, 2015, 2010, 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

Representation: The Woodstock Gallery, Woodstock, VT Images Gallery, Briarcliff Manor, NY Oak & Oil Gallery, Katonah, NY

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 Member, United Scenic Artists, Local 829, 1976 ~ 1989