Ellen McKenna is a Melbourne based artist and designer whose abstract work focuses on colour, balance and movement. Describing herself as a colour maximalist, Ellen’s work is bold and designed to evoke emotions like joy and happiness. Inspired by multidisciplinary design elements from the early to mid-20th Century, Ellen’s aesthetic is also shaped by her lifelong study and love of the arts which includes graduating with a degree in Visual and Performing Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts. Ellen works in acrylic on canvas artwork and both digital and painterly seamless repeat pattern design.