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Ellen Hopkins Fountain has a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and has shown in galleries throughout New York State, including a solo show at the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City. She is also represented by the Green Gallery in Guildford, Connecticut and has shown at the Lodge and in our Beacon gallery with us from the beginning. The artist often portrays the light of dawn and twilight, a master feat for a watercolorist. The landscape near her home never fails to move her, especially the vistas along the Hudson where the river is bordered by the Palisades--vertical cliffs of stone and vegetation. She says: “In painting, I use color to evoke a sense of time and place. Although I often use the Palisades and Hudson River as subject matter, I am more interested in expressing a mood rather than describing a particular place.” Ellen’s landscapes venture into abstraction and she revels in the ability of watercolor to go from “sheer translucent washes of color to thick deep darks, from whispered nuances to moonless-night blacks.”