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Ellie
Neilsen finds inspiration for her work in her immediate surroundings.
This may derive from the rural landscape around her or it may come from
observations of life drawn from her experience of it. Plants, animals
and people take on a new existence in her work and it is often the whimsical
aspects of this life that become her focus. Neilsens's work is wry, tempered
with humour and very appealing. She has won many awards and her work is
represented in both private and public collections. In 1993, in her exhibition
catalogue for, ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful' she said, "I
can find nothing that expresses my feelings better about my art than the
words of the nun and poetess Chiyo-ni whose haiku on the doctrine that
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