Mary Anne Aytoun Ellis

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A rare chance to see a selection of paintings from Mary Anne’s postponed London exhibition at Portland Gallery ‘The Wood I Know’ exploring the idea of an imaginary wood painted over three years.

Henry Wemyss, Senior Director of British Drawings and Paintings, Sotheby’s: “Mary Anne’s paintings are made with extraordinary detail of observation and an astonishing intensity – in many ways similar to eighteenth century miniatures and the work of the finest British Artists of the 1970’s such as Graham Sutherland. I am tempted to view her work close up and then step back a few feet away and each time I look I see something new. Artist and critic John Ruskin would have championed Mary Anne just as he did Turner in his time.”