With a background in painting and a career in jewelry design, Ellen Mote now enjoys practicing both crafts out of her studio in Waco, Texas. Her love for painting was reignited after stumbling across a purple weed growing out of a road in her neighborhood. Navigating a difficult season in her own life at the time, Ellen was moved by this picture of beauty rising out of an unlikely place. She picked the weed, brought it home, and used it to create the first of many paintings as she set old dreams in motion.
Inspired by nature and designed with unexpected compositions, Ellen’s paintings are crafted using cyanotypes, acrylic paint, and unprimed canvas. For every person who invites her art into their lives, Ellen hopes it reveals the everyday beauty all around them—because everyone is worthy of having beautiful things they love in their home.
Ellen is also the owner and designer of Ellen Mote Jewelry, a jewelry design company committed to creating unique and timeless pieces of handmade jewelry.
ELLEN MOTE CV
Ellen Mote, b. 1990 (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Ellen Mote is an American born artist, with a background in painting and a career in jewelry design, Ellen Mote now enjoys practicing both crafts out of her studio in Waco, Texas. Inspired by nature and designed with unexpected compositions, Ellen’s paintings are crafted using cyanotypes, acrylic paint, and unprimed canvas.
EDUCATION
2008-2012 – BFA, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas
2010 – SACI, Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – “Boom Boom”, Cultivate 7Twelve, Waco, TX
PRINT PUBLICATIONS
2023 – Waco Tribune-Herald, March 1, 2023
2020 - Magnolia Journal, Fall 2020, Iissue 16, p 88
2017 - Texas Monthly, Volume 45, Issue 12, p 74
2017 - Wacoan, November 2017
2016 - Magnolia Journal, Fall 2016, Issue 1, p 29
2016 - Baylor Lariat, March 15, 2016
LECTURES
2023- Artist Lecture with Dr. Jane Damron, GROCERY, Waco, TX