Ellen Roberts is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Farmington, located in the Western mountains of Maine. Roberts was born and raised in Rhode Island.

Roberts currently works as a printmaker and installation artist with a Fiber and Ceramics background. She holds a M.F.A. in Fiber from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a B.F.A. in Fiber from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.  She began her education at the Rhode Island School of Design where she majored in Ceramics. 

Working with improvisation, Roberts incorporates her vast knowledge of color, design, materials and techniques to come up with new and exciting pieces. Her ideas stem from observation, memory, and experimentation. She uses strong colors in multiple layers to create a rich depth of seemingly familiar patterns.  Layers of monotype prints are collaged together with materials including paper, Tyvek, and fabrics. Then she draws over them with machine stitching.  This immediately defines and consolidates her work into a single piece. 

In the past six years Roberts has been a member of Circling the Square Fine Art which is an open access cooperative press and gallery in Gardiner Maine. The press is involved in educating the public about artists and their creative processes and holds several exhibitions each year. It has exchange exhibitions with other printmakers within the United States and abroad. Roberts has been very active at the press and shares ideas, works, and exhibits closely with other artists.

Her work currently hangs in the President’s Office at the University of Maine Farmington. She has work at the Bank of R.I. and in the permanent collection at the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum. She also has had work in a group exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art.

For three decades, Ellen Roberts' work has been exhibited in numerous juried shows and solo exhibits throughout Maine, the Eastern U.S., Canada and Europe.  She is currently represented by the Landing Gallery in Rockland, Maine.