Ellie Davies

Born in 1976 in England, Ellie Davies made her love of forests her favorite theme. Born in the New Forest region, Ellie never ceases to roam the woods, from her native New Forest to Fontainebleau in France. Not only for plea­sure but also to inspire and cre­ate works as poetic as they are mysterious.

Passionate about sculp­ture dur­ing her ado­les­cence, the artist grad­u­ally turned to pho­tog­ra­phy. “After a frus­trat­ing year at the Art Foundation, I took a dark­room course and real­ized I could have a cre­ative life with­out hav­ing to be alone. It was a rev­e­la­tion.” She began her career as a pho­tog­ra­pher with self-​portraits as her first projects. “I used myself as a model in order to be able to be inde­pen­dent”, she explains. Initially, mainly focused on por­traits or com­mer­cial pho­tos, Ellie Davies will grad­u­ally return to her first love: the forest.

The real turn­ing point in her career as an artist came when he returned to the New Forest. Fascinated by the power of nature, Ellie finds an inspi­ra­tion drawn from her child­hood: fairy tales.

At the cen­ter of these tales, myths or leg­ends, the for­est has always fas­ci­nated man. A space that seems banal, but which nev­er­the­less remains a pre­text for fan­tasies, magic or even the deep­est fears. For Ellie, forests are not neu­tral because they are always per­ceived through the fil­ter of indi­vid­ual feel­ings. Her job is to recre­ate, in pho­tog­ra­phy, a mag­i­cal atmos­phere wor­thy of the great­est works of fan­tasy. An atmos­phere that chal­lenges human per­cep­tion thanks to the upheaval of a “sta­tic” nature. A real loss of bear­ings emerges from her works. The English artist trans­forms a “sim­ple” for­est into fas­ci­nat­ing scenes where the imag­i­na­tion takes over.

Ellie Davies’ work can be found in numer­ous pri­vate col­lec­tions in the UK, USA, Europe, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.

More artworks on request.