Ella-Sophie Kuzyk

A painter, muralist, adventurous spirit, and big time lover of life, Ella Kuzyk has been making art from the moment she could jam her baby hands into a jar of paint. Growing up in various mountain towns around the West, she has always been sketching, painting, and reimagining the landscapes around her. Ella’s work has become an ode to the sense of overwhelming joy, wonder, and awe found in truly wild moments and places. Early influences on her art include Sean McCabe, Christina Russel McKeown, and Larry Pirnie. 

Ella’s art is in the experience and process, blending the memory, imagination, and place together. The landscape form remains mostly intact, while vibrant colors breathe joy and life into her work. She will often start a painting en plein air, or bring back sketches to work from into the studio.   

“When I’m painting, I usually start drawing based off a mix of reference photos and sketches, then let loose with the colors, letting my experience of the place shine through.”  

 This gives her art a bit of a psychedelic edge, and a unique sense of fluidity. 

“We all perceive wavelength and color differently, register different frequencies of sound, interpret life and emotion in context of our own experiences. Each person is home to an entirely unique universe of their own, I’m happy to share some of mine with you!”

In her free time, Ella loves to run, ski, climb, and bike—a bit of everything to inspire her artwork. After graduating from MSU, Ella spent 5 months in artists residency in Argentina. She’s now living in the Flathead Valley and enjoying a new lifetime’s worth of mountains to paint.

You can follow along with her adventures on Instagram @january.dreaming and get in contact for inquiries, commissions and murals through ellakuzykcreative.com