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Oil pastel on paper
20 x 20 cm
2026
I'm Ellie Cottrell, a drawer based in Cheltenham, working in oil pastel on paper.
My work explores multiplicities and dualities; human interaction, its necessary vulnerabilities and our interconnection with our surroundings – the real and the not so much.
Rather than a portrait, figures convey a feeling or idea, a self-portrait of someone else. People and environments are built of layers that the paper breathes through; they live comfortably with unease and tension.
I am deeply interested in multitudes. Through the work, I am investigating how we interact with our own anxieties and the countervailing feelings of constraint and support, overwhelm and creation. Each series contains aspects of this exploration into plurality, how people, experiences, spaces can be seen from multiple ways at once.
This piece comes from a series of exploring dreams, my conversations with mundanity; it can be very quiet.
Oil pastel on paper
20 x 20 cm
2026
I'm Ellie Cottrell, a drawer based in Cheltenham, working in oil pastel on paper.
My work explores multiplicities and dualities; human interaction, its necessary vulnerabilities and our interconnection with our surroundings – the real and the not so much.
Rather than a portrait, figures convey a feeling or idea, a self-portrait of someone else. People and environments are built of layers that the paper breathes through; they live comfortably with unease and tension.
I am deeply interested in multitudes. Through the work, I am investigating how we interact with our own anxieties and the countervailing feelings of constraint and support, overwhelm and creation. Each series contains aspects of this exploration into plurality, how people, experiences, spaces can be seen from multiple ways at once.
This piece comes from a series of exploring dreams, my conversations with mundanity; it can be very quiet.