Ellen Starr Levinson

Ellen Starr Levinson embarked on her career in the arts at a very early age. She was 9 years old when she began to take private drawing and oil painting lessons. By the time she was 13, she was enrolled at the Art Students League in New York City. As she deepened her love, skills, and passion for the work, she attended Music and Art High School and subsequently went on to Pratt Institute where, she studied graphic arts and illustration.

Ellen's flair for the arts continued to flourish as she expanded into fabric, jewelry and landscape design. She created and constructed three restaurants that she and her husband operated in Southern California, decorating them with a total of nine murals.

As a Laguna Beach, California resident for 35 years, Ellen studied with Armen Gasparian at the Laguna Beach School of Art and was juried into the Festival of Arts. She had a one-woman show in Newport Beach, California, and was deeply involved in painting costumes and sets for the Pageant of the Masters.

Ellen lived in Sedona, Arizona for eight years, concentrating her efforts on new paintings and embellishing her son's ceramics with clay sculptures.

Now a resident of Ocala, Florida, Ellen has developed an appreciation for the magnificence of horses and has expressed her
passion in a series of paintings depicting them as they move in herds and by themselves. She has captured their essence in her brilliant strokes. She specializes in landscape art and accepts commissions for pet portraits.

Ellen recently won two first prizes for her exhibits at The Armory Art School and the Coral Springs Museum.