Ellen Urman has been dabbling in art for her entire life—pen and ink, pottery, abstract and animal sculpture, and most recently, collage. Inspired by nature, climate change, the oceans, and growing natural disasters that blanket the world, she uses everyday items along with common magazine pictures to create her collages. Ellen describes her best work as always providing wisdom, honesty, and only sometimes beauty. 

About 10 years ago, Ellen began working in series, and her art exhibit at the Co-op includes a few pieces from her 25-piece series that all include a piece of pottery in them. The topics she is exhibiting are as varied as the materials she used to create the pieces—handmade paper, coffee filters, photographs, various types of cardboard, sheets of music, menus, maps, and colored markers, to name a few. Her pieces often depict a stream of consciousness, and many of her art materials seem to “co-create” with her.  

Reach out to Ellen directly at elermn@gmail.com to purchase art. For every college she sells, she will donate one-half of the proceeds to the Ocean Conservancy.