Ellen McKenna is a Melbourne based pattern designer and artist. Ellen’s work started with a modernist aesthetic, featuring textured line works, abstract spots and pronounced shapes but has developed to include a more expressionistic style created with paint.

She says she is a maximalist in colour most of the time, but not afraid to combine all of the colours. 

With a passion for vintage things, Ellen draws her inspiration from fashion, architecture, interior design, 20th century art, mid-century Scandinavian and Bauhaus movements.

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