Cosmos bipinnatus
archival pigment print 

1/5 (first print in a limited edition of 5)
Image 5 x 5 inches | Mat 9 x 12 inches | Frame 9 x 13 inches
Framed with Optium Museum Acrylic

Black and White Photography is a gold-standard of sorts for art collectors everywhere. And for plant and garden lovers, a black and white plant or landscape portrait is perfection. Libby Ellis goes one step further in taking gorgeous life portraits that always transcend the individual life, and bring it into alignment with the universe and universal. Her Cosmosis series is no exception....

“US-based Libby Ellis’s photographs have an ethereal, luminous quality and bring to mind the imagery of 19th-century photography and early black-and-white cinema.” 

—Richard Unwin, Euronews 

Libby Ellis is a fine art photographer creating contemplative black-and-white photographic portraits of garden-grown flora. Her studio practice is wholly intentional and meditative, with a focus on the Divine. She lives and works on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. 

Her work has been exhibited most recently at the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Carnegie Trust Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and galleries in the US, UK, and Europe. 

Ellis’s flora portraits are held in private and public collections, including the Harvard Divinity School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her work has been recognized with several awards from the Royal Horticultural Society. 

You can find out more about Libby's art and place here:
www.libbyellis.com
And on Instagram: libbyellis_studio