I express my creativity through my writing, my videos and my ethereal, multi-dimensional paintings that invite you into my dreamlike worlds….
Online Gallery
Connect with Ellen’s ethereal, multi-dimensional paintings. View her art, buy products & prints.
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A Filigree in Blues & Greens
A-Spherical-Bespangled-and-Adorned-Horizontal
Life-on-a-Spherical
Marigold Explosion
Juggling The Jugglegems
Swan Lake
We Are The Glimpsibles Flying Through The Sky
Tangerine City
Perceptual Illuminations
The Color World of Glimpse
Purple and Violet Petalheads
Just Try to Use Your Imagination
Creative Bubbulation
Redaway
Zen Garden Gone Wild
Unexpected Emergences
The Bubble Shop
Beloved Sagacity Bush
Lunaberry Moths
The Distant Blue Mountains
Summer Dance
Beneath-The-Sea
Light in The Distant Gloomland
Bubbling Grapes
Autumn Tree in All Its Glory
A Circumrotating Head
The-Feast-Macro-in-the-Micro
A-Butterfly-Came-to-Emerald-Forest
About ELLEN
I am a South African-born writer, artist and filmmaker, currently residing in Arizona. I was educated in South Africa and Britain and immigrated with my family to the USA in 1987.
I have also been a game inventor, advertising consultant, hydroponic farmer, special education teacher, television scriptwriter (adult documentary and children’s animation), college instructor (English, Humanities, Creative Writing) and co-publisher of a college press.
I began painting about 14 years ago and my art has been exhibited in a number of galleries. I am the author of about 16 published books ranging from fiction/fantasy to poetry and non-fiction, many of which I have illustrated. I have written and lectured extensively on both creativity and other subjects.
Media & Interviews
On Reno Tahoe Tonight
Ellen discusses creativity and inspirations with fellow writer/artist Jill Glenn and show host Oliver X. You can read about both Jill and Oliver in CONVERSATIONS ABOUT CREATIVITY.
On Arizona Originals
Ellen discusses creativity, perfectionism, balancing the practical with the possible, and the importance of taking action and moving forward.
You can see the full post here.
Books
The many forms of Ellen’s creativity expressed through her words and art.
There’s a Light at the End of My Muddle
If You Shut Your Eyes, You’ll Hear Some Cosmic Verse
I Touched a Star In My Dream Last Night
The World of Glimpse
Conversations about Creativity
PRAISE FOR ELLEN
ART
I have completely fallen in love with Ellen’s creative perspective of the world. Her pieces inspire me to add more color and creativity to my life.
CREATIVITY
[An] insight and perception that made me reach deep inside myself and pull out my potential.
BOOKS
The World of Glimpse … the full frontal sensory barrage is unlike anything I’ve encountered outside of Walt Disney’s Fantasia – yet this is a book!
Blog
EVEN WHEN ALL SEEMS BLEAK, YOU CAN STILL INVITE COLOR INTO YOUR LIFE
Color is power which directly influences the soul.Wassily KandinskyWith the ongoing global pandemic, I feel at times, that I have embarked on a voyage into the deep and foreboding unknown. I imagine that many of you share similar emotions. What lies ahead for all of us? We don’t know....
THINK FLUORESCENT & PHOSPHORESCENT
I never met a color I didn’t like.Dale ChihulyWhy do fluorescent colors arrest my attention? I think it is because they are flamboyant, bodacious, conspicuous, vibrant and brilliant. “Look at me, look at me!” they beckon and I do. Yet I use them sparingly in my paintings – just a hint at...
THINK MONOCHROME
A colorful world is always a synonym for paradise. A grey or monocolored world is always a synonym for purgatory or hell…The diversity of color brings paradise.Friedensreich HundertwasserAre paintings in monochromes created because of a need to explore the subtle variables of one color, a...
Life as a Trendsetter – As Featured in AZ Foothills Magazine
This has just been published in the Arizona Foothills titled: “Trendsetter to Know” and I thought I would share both the interviewer’s questions and my responses with you: Arizona Foothills Trendsetter to Know: Ellen Palestrant Name: Ellen Palestrant Twitter: @epalestrant...
Videos
Welcome to the World of Glimpse
Ellen gives a brief overview of her book and video of The World of Glimpse, a theatrical, humorous fantasy realm of Joy, Luminous Color and Creativity inhabited by the Glimpsibles. Let your imagination take hold and join her where negativity and positivity collide.
Songs and Sounds of the Universe
If you shut your eyes,
you’ll hear
some cosmic verse…
songs and sounds of the Universe.
Our Earth, Our Choice
We can if we choose, try to preserve the precious and glorious biodiversity of our planet for our children, their children – and for all the species and ecosystems with whom we coexist.
