Portheras Cove #2 is an abstract painting by the Cornish based artist Ella Carty that takes inspiration from the sea creatures found in the rocky pools of Portheras Cove in west Cornwall.

Ella has an Art Foundation from St. Albans College of Art, a BA in Fine Art Painting from Cheltenham College of Art and was an Arts Fellow from 2010-2014 at Digswell Arts in Hertfordshire. The artist now lives and paints from her Krowji studio in Redruth.

It is here in Cornwall that Ella brings together all of her pervious experience. In her studio she reflects and investigates on her past and the world around her, translating these moments of perception, discovery and regeneration into her work.

The artists identifies these layers and associations from scavenged sources as a combination of “art history, of physical landscape and emotional encounters and all the fictions I have constructed in between.” Working with vibrant acrylics and colourful inks she pulls on all of these experiences to create a flurry of abstract shapes and forms as seen in the beautiful organic forms in Portheras Cove #2.