ellejayerose

Ellen Jaye Benson Visual Artist/Educator
a.k.a. ‘elle jaye rose’ (my frustrated dark illustrator & social commentator hat)

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Welcome to my small, dank and quite possibly unsanitary online hub for my illustration and some of my visual artwork

when I die my epitaph may read:
“It’s a mental bed… It’s a bed I’m accustomed to”

as my alter ego ‘elle jaye rose’, my illustration artwork seats and swings somewhere between pop, personal, formal and informal. I am poor and therefore an art whore open to doing commissions – preferably of the most absurd and interesting kind… so bubblemail me for any enquiries.

Music that moves me:

David Bowie
The Smiths
The Go-Betweens
Talking Heads
Tom Waits
Patti Smith
Frank Black
The Dirty Three
Television
Devo
Blonde Redhead
The Birthday Party
Rowland S. Howard
Joy Division
The Pretenders (early stuff)
Gary Numan
My Bloody Valentine
Pulp
The Cramps
The Cure
Neko Case
Lou Reed
Underground Lovers
Gentle Ben & his Sensitive Side
Nancy Sinatra
T-Rex
Roxy Music
Nina Simone
The National

Books of Note:

The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Sexualia
Life After God
Of Mice and Men
The Orchid Thief
Crime and Punishment
Edgar Allen Poe Collection
Jitterbug Perfume
The Big Book of Shrigley
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
Buried Treasure: Travels through the Jewel Box
Catch 22
anything by Spike Milligan
Animal Farm
The Monstrous Feminine

Significant Artists:

Egon Schiele
Frank Auerbach
David Shrigley
Paul Compton
Josh Bowe
John Douglas
Mark Rothko
Paula Rego
Brett Whiteley
Deborah Klein
Donna Malone
Paul Ruiz
Lucian Freud
Francis Bacon
Elyss McCleary
Steve Cox
Godwin Bradbeer
Toulouse-Lautrec
John Wolseley
Vivienne Westwood
Leigh Bowery
Loui Jover
Fiona Hall
Joan Mitchell
Meret Oppenheim
John Wolseley
Judy Horacek