Hello, I’m James Ellis.

I'm a mixed media artist working with collage, digital painting and a combination of both. Through automatism, I create minimalist compositions with a sense of balance and peace.

I developed my art practice as a haven from our modern times, an elixir from the visual pollution, ongoing noise and general mess around us. I'm creating a visual ecosystem, balanced and uncluttered, that not only represents nature but also recreates the feeling of being there.

It was through Henri Matisse and Jean Arp's works that I found the inspiration and techniques to emulate the spontaneity, balance and beauty of the natural world - developing a visual practice built from incidental, yet meticulously balanced shapes and colours.

My work has now evolved to encompass a wider range of mediums and themes. My most recent process, combining analogue collage and digital painting, is the basis of my new FACE series exploring society’s new challenges around human interaction, physicality and artificial intelligence.