Ellen Langford is a painter whose body of work is inspired by landscapes, chance meetings, and the South’s mighty cross-currents. Ellen notices and captures the relationships between the land and its inhabitants – a child with his dog, a clothesline in the breeze, a figure with the landscape. We don’t only see them in her paintings, we feel that joyful connection.
Langford worked for years as a paramedic in central Mississippi. She became heavily influenced by the often tender narratives of her patients’ stories, as well as the quiet rituals that they incorporate into their lives. As the parent of a young boy herself, and owner of chickens and dogs, Ellen often incorporates children and animals into her compositions as she finds sweetness and vulnerability in their movements, as well as joy and adventure.
Native to Mississippi, Ellen has pursued academic studies in her craft in New York, San Francisco, DC, & Italy, among other places. However, her work took on its recognizable narrative quality when she returned home to the Deep South.
Langford’s painting process involves layers of paint, often sanded away and then glazed over, searching for shape and pattern, color, and texture, to build the story worlds her figures inhabit.
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Selected Works
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Becoming of the Day
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 48 X 48"
$4,300.-
(LAN337)
Big Dog, Sweet Moon
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 36 X 12"
$1,100.-
(LAN343)
All of This
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 12 X 12"
$500.-
(LAN339)
Where There's Joy
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 48 X 60"
$5,000.-
(LAN344)
Springtime Turnings
Acrylic Paint on Paper
size: 10 1/4 X 7 1/8"
$300.-
(LAN293)
Three Chickens
Acrylic Paint on Paper
size: 10 1/2 X 13 7/8" - Framed Size
$465.-
(LAN207)
Do You Remember
Acrylic Paint on Paper
size: 7 1/8 X 10 1/4"
$300.-
(LAN290)
Dance of the Cloudy Night Skies
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 36 X 12"
$1,100.-
(LAN336)
Toasting You
Acrylic Paint on Paper
size: 7 1/8 X 10 1/4"
$300.-
(LAN308)
Taking Care
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 16 X 20"
$900.-
(LAN279)
About to
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 12 X 24"
$975.-
(LAN268)
Companion
Acrylic Paint on Paper
size: 23 3/8 X 31"- Framed Size
$1,425.-
(LAN285)
You Hold the Sun
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 20 X 20"
$1,100.-
(LAN317)
This One Day
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 36 X 12"
$1,100.-
(LAN342)
And Also with You
Acrylic Paint on Wood
size: 6 X 6"
$300.-
(LAN326)
In Just this Way
Acrylic Paint on Wood
size: 6 X 6"
$300.-
(LAN327)
Holding the Balance
Acrylic Paint on Wood
size: 6 X 6"
$300.-
(LAN328)
There's Always the One
Acrylic Paint on Wood
size: 6 X 6"
$300.-
(LAN329)
What We Could Be
Acrylic Paint on Paper
size: 17 X 13 1/2" - Framed Size
$425.-
(LAN296)
There's Something About You
Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas
size: 12 X 12"
$500.-
(LAN341)
Ellen Langford visits American Folk!