Ellen Glenn Golden

Ellen Golden was born in Oklahoma and grew up in California, Texas and Colorado. Travels throughout the west as a young child and young adult stimulated her curiosity about nature and the subject matter she has always loved to explore, photograph and paint. She has been a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut since 1976.

Ellen studied interior design, architecture and art at Pratt Institute in New York and University of Washington in Seattle. She began her career as an interior designer in New York City where she worked for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for nine years. She has worked as an interior designer in Fairfield County since 1980. She is a Principal of Perkins Eastman Architects, an international firm with ten offices around the globe. Her projects include corporate interiors, country clubs, health care institutions and religious facilities. She is also an avid photographer who has exhibited her work in galleries and is included in private collections.

She is an Associate Member of the Pastel Society of America, a member of the Stamford Art Association and the Art Society of Old Greenwich. Her pastels have recently won awards at the Stamford Art Association and the Art Society of Old Greenwich and were included in the Silvermine Guild Arts Center’s annual “Art of the Northeast” exhibit judged by the Director of the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe. During the last two summers, Ellen has studied pastel painting with Albert Handell, a member of the Pastel Hall of Fame, one of the only living artists so honored and Jane Shoenfield. Ellen is represented by The White Gallery in Lakeville, Connecticut.

“My pastels represent places I have explored to find beauty and peace. I seek places to restore my spirit and rekindle my creativity. I like to explore different areas of our country to reflect upon the magnitude and diversity of nature’s gifts to us. The images become personal journals and poetry in my life. They put perspective into my life. The images remind me of the scale of our world. My small thoughts relating to day-to-day issues evaporate when I allow myself to become absorbed into the places I visit and the paintings that I create to celebrate the beauty by which I am surrounded.”