Big Day

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Big Day is currently on Sale.
Big Day is a multicoloured painting with bold, strong lines and shapes. Big Day shows off my playful, instinctive style of painting where shapes and colours bounce and react to each other. In this type of painting I start with a colour I like and begin with that. The first shape and the first colour inspires the next shape and colour. Then the next shape and the next colour inspires the next, and so on and so on till the canvas is filled.

The artwork has been finished with a satin varnish with UV protection and strung with plastic covered picture wire so it is ready to be hung. Art work will also be signed on the back with Ellen McKenna.
Please don't hesitate to ask the Blue Thumb Team (they are lovely and helpful) or myself any questions you may have about this painting!

ABOUT ELLEN
Ellen McKenna is a Melbourne based artist and pattern designer. Ellen's work has, so far, been featured in products by fashion, textile and home wares clients, such as the Nerida Hansen Textiles, Cotton ON, Gillian Valentine, Natty and Polly, Sole Mio, Kablooie, Elm Lifestyle, Chester Street Clothing, Foxwood Clothing, Tokoencit and Soxy Beast and also includes a recent collaboration with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Ellen's art work has also been featured in Home Design Magazine and has been included in a corporate art acquisition for the Queen and Collins Building in Melbourne.
Ellen also produced a month long exhibition 'Feeling Colours’ which was hosted by the Bluethumb Art Gallery and was part of Melbourne Design Week 2021 NGV and featured Ellen’s art and textile design.
In 2020 Ellen was also shortlisted as a finalist and awarded a commendation in The Design Files + Laminex - Design Awards in the category of Textile Design.
Ellen works in standalone canvas and scalable digital placement art as well as digital and painterly repeat pattern design for product licensing.

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Ellen McKenna is a Melbourne based pattern designer and artist. Ellen uses her art and pattern work as creative expression with a focus on colour, shape, playfulness and balance. Inspired by multidisciplinary design elements from the early to mid 20th Century, Ellen’s aesthetic is also shaped by her lifelong study and love of the arts which includes, a Certificate IV in Design, a Certificate IV in Interior Decorating and graduating with a degree in Visual and Performing Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Ellen's work has, so far, been featured in products by fashion, textile and home wares clients, such as Gillian Valentine, Natty and Polly, Sole Mio, Kablooie, Elm Lifestyle , Chester Street Clothing, Foxwood Clothing, Tokoencit, Little and Kind, Nerida Hansen Textiles, Cotton ON, Soxy Beast and a recent collaboration with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Ellen's art work has also featured in Home Design Magazine and has been included in a corporate art acquisition for the Queen and Collins Building in Melbourne.

Ellen also produced a month long exhibition 'Feeling Colours’ which was hosted by the Bluethumb Art Gallery and was part of Melbourne Design Week 2021 NGV and featured Ellen’s art and textile design.
https://bluethumb.com.au/blog/galleries-and-exhibitions/melbourne-design-week-ellen-mckenna/

In 2020 Ellen was also shortlisted as a finalist and awarded a commendation in The Design Files + Laminex - Design Awards in the category of Textile Design.

Ellen works in both digital and painterly repeat pattern design and also standalone canvas and scalable digital placement art.