Ellen Jones – Signed Limited Edition of “Sully Plantation”

Description

Ellen Jones did something a lot of people just dream about doing.  For those of us who wake up to discover we’re compulsive artists trapped in the bodies of lawyers or waitresses or accountants, that revelation too often comes too late. We’re already in our thirties or forties. Our muses go unrequited. If-onlys forever echo at the back of our minds.

n 1973, Jones had already chosen a career as a high school history and political science teacher. Raised in Prince George’s County, she graduated from the University of Maryland majoring in education toward that goal. She married her high school sweetheart and soon established herself as a dedicated teacher at a private school in Virginia.

“Once I got a pen in my hand,” she says, “it obviously suited me. I’ve always been a stickler for detail.”…She didn’t want to be just another mother who in a few hours of painting classes Saturday mornings when the kids were at soccer could never quite capture her emotions in a brush stroke. She wanted to be an artist whose work sells in galleries and hangs in other people’s homes, a professional artist whose work is valued and collected.