Through the lens of wife, mother, and daughter, Ellen Hathaway
filters experiences, and as a painter translates into color and texture, savoring the diversity, immediacy and playfulness of acrylics. Collaboration between intuition and discipline, the artist seeks a dynamic essence with expansive paint - layering, building texture, pushing color to create an effect that is both generous and unexpected. Inviting one within the painting to meditate intimately, imagery dissolves into expressionism, becoming more about paint and gesture. Ms. Hathaway’s ultimate artistic objective is to infuse the canvas with energy, vibrancy and color; conveying a message of abundance and hope.

Ellen’s home in the rolling hills of Charlottesville, Virginia is a change of pace from the eastern North Carolina riverfront town of Washington, where she was raised. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, Hathaway pursued careers in media and teaching. After leaving the workforce to concentrate energies on homemaking and family her desire to draw and paint clarified.

In 2007 Ellen made her artistic debut in Charlottesville, Virginia with Les Yeux du Monde Gallery’s Emerging and Established. Since that time she has regularly shown with Les Yeux du Monde having work included in Grand Re-Opening and Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts. 2012 marks her first solo exhibition Epiphanies at Les Yeux du Monde.

Since 2010, Hathaway has also shown regularly with Art3 Gallery in Manchester, New Hampshire, adding works to their exhibitions: Light and Darkness, Life and Still Life, and Scene/Unseen. Her work was also on view at Christa Faut Gallery in Cornelius, North Carolina from 2010 until the gallery’s closing in 2012. Solo exhibitions of her work include Transitions at The Academy of Fine Arts in Lynchburg, Virginia and Of One: A Series of Multi-panel Works at NPR’s Charlottesville-studio WVTF/RADIO IQ, sponsored by New City Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia. Two years consecutively she was juried into Ballet Virginia International’s Artists for the Arts Gala Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia where she received awards: The People’s Choice (2009) and The Sponsor’s Choice (2010). Most recently she was juried into The 42nd Annual River Road Show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her work has been included in exhibition at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and Martha Jefferson Hospital’s permanent collection in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ellen is married to Curtis Hathaway, Jr. and they have two daughters, Anne Clark and Brooke. She considers it a blessing to have a family who encourages and indulges her desire to make art.