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Ella Carty (B. 1971 in Nairobi Kenya) lives in Penryn, Cornwall. She is a painter who investigates her own experiences of the world. Her semi-abstract paintings incorporate a love of colour and pattern, absorbing and interpreting her surroundings. Her most recent body of work depicts interior spaces in saturated colour inspired by her experiences during the pandemic.

“I was craving warmth and colour – sensations that weren’t on offer during the Cornish winter. I use colour to depict a reinvention of both real and imagined spaces. Our rooms, our domestic environments, became both our sanctuary and our place of confinement these last few years. But I always think paintings are like rooms; you can step into them and be transported to another place entirely.”

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