ELLA MOULDING

Ella is a Cheltenham based painter whose practice is deeply shaped by her experience of living abroad, travel and immersion within the landscape. 

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Following Edinburgh University, she worked in the Fine Art sector in London before spending 17 years living abroad: in Europe, Asia and the USA.

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Over the years she has enjoyed many artist residencies; Sardinia, Venice, Ireland and most recently at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Greece. These periods of focused painting and sketching, often in the Mediterranean, have profoundly influenced her visual language and continue to inform her evolving body of work. 

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Her landscape paintings are a response to the light, atmosphere and environment. She works 'en plein air' in watercolour, gouache and charcoal creating studies that capture the immediacy of a place. These works can often become larger studio paintings in oil, where memory and sensation override direct representation. 

 

Ella has exhibited internationally: Sydney, Tokyo, New York, New Jersey, London and the Cotswold, she was elected a member of the Chelsea Art Society in 2023.