by Godfrey J. Ellis – 16×20 Oil 1990 I had not painted for 13 years when I painted this seascape. My life had been consumed with finishing my PhD, helping to raise a family of four boys, and fulfilling numerous Church assignments. I was also establishing my career as a professor at both Oklahoma State […]
Category: Landscapes
Gig Harbor Reflections
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 16×20 Oil 1990 With the success of an oil class I took, I wanted to create more paintings as gifts for family and friends. I asked my father, Maurice Ellis, what he would like. He said that he had always loved Gig Harbor. I painted the scene but quickly saw […]
Idaho Falls Temple
by Godfrey J. Ellis – acrylic 1990 This painting was a gift to Alton and Denies Alexander. They were married in this building, the Idaho Falls Temple. They framed it with glass even though acrylics are not usually framed that way. You can see some glare on this photo of the painting. When Alton died, […]
Alberta Farm
by Godfrey J. Ellis – acrylic 1990 Barry Ellis, my older brother, lived in Alberta, Canada, and loved prairie scenes. As a gift, I painted this picture from a similar painting shown in an art book. (So, the scene was not necessarily a farm in Alberta, per se.) Also, Barry has had a lifelong love […]
The Forgotten Model T Ford
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 1990 This isn’t really a painting at all, more just a whimsical color sketch of an abandoned Model T Ford. It’s really small, just 6 inches or so. It was sketched out in a few minutes as a little bit of fun. I only included it here because people, including […]
Rhodies in the Rain Forest
by Godfrey J. Ellis – acrylic 1990 The cover of a Northwest magazine featured a photograph of these beautiful rhododendrons growing in the rain-forest out in the peninsula. Unfortunately, the cover also contained a large barcode as well as the titles of the articles inside, and so on. These covered much of the picture. Even […]
Le Point Minou
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 14×18 oil 1977 This painting is the site of the baptism of Lili Le Roy in 1970, when I was a missionary in France. In my journal, I wrote: “Thurs, 6 Aug 1970: In the afternoon, we went out to see Point Minou. It was more beautiful than before, if […]
Pinky, the White Mouse
by Godfrey J. Ellis – oil 1976 When I was 26 years old, Merry and I traveled to BYU to work on a post-doctoral research project studying family interaction. The project director was one of my old professors, Darwin Thomas. As a part of the project, I painting an elaborate game board onto the surface […]
Vancouver Skyline at Night
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 16×20 oil 1974 This painting is English Bay and the Grouse Mountain Chairlift in Vancouver, Canada, from was a Christmas gift for my parents. In 1974, this is how Vancouver looked; today, the lights of the buildings and up on the mountain have grown exponentially. My mother, who was also […]
Bent Tree on a Mountain Trail
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 16×20 oil 1974 This painting was a Christmas gift for Mom and Dad Huntamer. We were a young couple (25 and 23) and still in grad school. We had little money. We thought paintings would be good and relatively inexpensive gifts to give. So I picked up few paint brushes […]