Soleyne Profile: Ellie Barrett Wilder

Ellie Barrett Wilder's bio:

Ellie Barrett Wilder has been a Sausalito artist since 1991.

"These snapshots of the collective unconscious pull for the evolution of human culture. Art lifts the veil and allows us to consider what was previously unseen. We live in a time of amazing change: the possibility of transcendence and continued evolution side by side with the possibility of mass destruction and decline. In these extremes, we either create and evolve or stagnate and perish.

My process is organic. I begin a work in a frenzy of torn and cut images, glue and medium. I finish in an ever-tightening process of painting and drawing, refining space and bringing in light. Layers of imagery and text are embedded in acrylic and oil medium on paper and panels with paint, encaustic, fabric and other objects, graphite, pastel, charcoal and ink."