Ellen Dick was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1944. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Toronto and has traveled extensively in Europe, studying painting and architecture. Ken Schmaltz in “Lookwest Magazine” had this to say
about Ellen Dick:
When Ellen Dick moved from her native Ontario to Swalwell, Alberta, population less than 100, it took over 15 years before she felt ready to sit down and paint the landscape. Although she kept painting other things, she crammed
it into whatever time was left over from raising two kids and tending to the family’s honey bee operation. Then one day, as she lay in a farmer’s field looking at the sky above her, she realized what she had been missing all along. “I’d be out all summer
driving in my truck from bee yard to bee yard and watching the sky,” she describes of her revelation. “It suddenly hit me. Hey, the landscape’s up there. It’s happening in the sky and it’s continually moving and changing.”
In 1997, Ellen Dick
traveled to Baffin Island to study icebergs. The project was called “Journey to Zero Degrees”. Ellen hired an Inuit guide who took her to the icebergs by snowmobile and kamotik which she describes as a “wild ride over the ice floes”. The icebergs were
stuck in the sea ice so they were able to climb on them and even make tea from the water flowing down the sides! This was a very different subject for Ellen to paint and she thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
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