Maruska aka Ellen Wood
Questa, NM
Three Golden Spheres
Acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"
2023
$200
About
Ellen Wood is a prizewinning author, columnist and former management executive. After her youngest child began school, Ellen started an in-house ad agency for a bank and won 16 awards for annual report and advertising excellence, including 4 national awards. Five years after her mother died of Alzheimer’s, Ellen experienced early symptoms (she has the gene, APO-e4). At 68 she developed a program of mind/ body/spirit techniques that proved so successful, she wrote and published “Think and Grow Young,” followed by “Joy! Joy! Joy!” (now retitled “The Secret Method for Growing Younger,” Volumes 1 and 2) and gave inspirational speeches. Since 2018 Ellen has been the ad agency for NorthStar Tire and Auto in Questa, NM. Ellen started painting in November of 2020, having dabbled at it in her 20s, and gave herself a new name: Maruška, her father’s middle name. She is overjoyed to be part of a big, loving, talented, kindhearted family.
Artist Statement
As a writer, my name is Ellen Wood. As a painter, I use my father’s middle name, Maruška. My unique style is embedding images into the five basic shapes of Sacred Geometry: spiral, straight line, square, circle and triangle. However, I have many different styles, including a number of paintings of eyes. “Here’s looking at you, kid” from Casablanca implies that the sight of Isla’s face brings such joy to Rick’s heart that the mere act of looking at her is something to be celebrated as one of the great moments of his life.
Portfolio
Representation
Taos Artist Collective
Taos, NM