About

Ella Kilgour is a painter and portrait artist. Born in 1980 she studied Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art, London. She worked as a designer, illustrator and a gallery curator before turning her attention to painting.

Self taught, Ella uses a lively mix of classical and contemporary techniques which result in an instantly recognisable style which is uniquely her own.

I am interested in the place where Old and New worlds collide. And the ‘fuzzy edge' between the Real and the Imagined. I am always pushing and pulling between the two. There is also a tension between the discipline of accurate representation, and the looseness of energy and feeling. At times my painting breaks through into the dreamy world of expressive marks and vivid colour, only to pull back in other moments into a more structured and controlled observation.’

Ella exhibits regularly in the UK and also in Australia, where she lived for many years. She is represented by Grainger Gallery in Canberra.

You can visit the artist and her paintings at her studio in the historic Hot Walls of Old Portsmouth.