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Ellie
attended UCLA, earning a B.A.in Fine Arts with Honors. She did
graduate work at UCLA under the direction of William Brice, Jan
Stussey, Sam Amoto and Rico Lebrun. After a career in graphic
Design
and raising a family, she returned to her first love, painting.
Freudenstein paints 'en plein air'; her chosen media are oil
and
watercolor. She enjoys painting landscapes, mostly of California's
central coast, France and Italy. Her paintings are richly colored
with
a great sense of movement energy, and emotion.
Today, she works in her studio and in the field doing studies
in
Italy, France,and in the central coast near Santa Barbara, Ca.
.
Ellie is often asked to teach workshops for various art societies
or
private groups.
She is a full artist member of the California Art Club; Oil Painters
of
America, Signiture Member of American Impressionist Society;
Signature
Member of the Women Artists of the West, and recently inducted
into the
National Association of Women Artists. |
