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 is oil.
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. |
