About
the Artist
Ellen Dreibelbis
An artist since childhood, Ellen
Dreibelbis has worked in watercolor, printmaking,
acrylics and textiles before finding her way to pastels.
She has always loved to draw, and was delighted to
find this way of combining drawing and painting, and
by the immediacy of the results. For 25 years, Dreibelbis
did library reference work, rising at 4:00 to paint
before work. All this changed in 1993 when she was
selected by Citibank, N.A., to create six paintings
whey they reproduced as prints and sent to their top
client. Dreibelbis left the library and since then
her art has been reproduced as children's books, book
and magazine covers, and limited edition prints for
clients such as the American Library Association,
Macmillan/McGraw Hill, and Cricket Magazine.
In 1997 Dreibelbis decided to focus
on her fine art paintings of figures and portraits.
Since that time her work has been featured in many
top national and international juried shows including
the American Academy of Women Artists Show, the Degas
Pastel Society Show, and the Pastel Society of the
West Coast Show, winning awards at the International
Association of Patel Societies, the Pastel Society
of America, the Sierra Pastel Society and the Associated
Pastellists on the web.
