Ella Kilgour

Artfully combining old master techniques with playful contemporary touches, self-taught oil painter Ella Kilgour examines how light transforms the everyday through a series of figurative, landscape, interior and still life artworks.

She is interested in the place where old and new worlds collide. The ‘fuzzy edge’ between that which is real and that which is imagined. Anchored in careful observation from life, she introduces chromatic underpainting, broken colour and unexpected imagery to subvert our expectations. In this way her paintings move between the domestic and the sublime, the joyful and the jarring, the dark and the light.