San Francisco based artist Ellen Little grew up in Los Angeles CA and earned her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA. Upon graduating she moved to New York to work as an art director at Ogilvy and Mather and teach at the School of Visual Arts. Next she moved to San Francisco and founded the graphic design firm, Little Design Group and taught at the Academy of Art. After 10 years Ellen closed Little Design and has been painting full time ever since.

In 2017 Ellen founded Dogpatch Collective, a community of 17 artist studios in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. In 2022 she was awarded a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission to start the Dogpatch Collective Artist Residency program which provides free studios and mentorship to artists from historically underserved communities.

Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country including DeYoung Museum CA, Milton Art Museum MA, Napa Valley Museum CA, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art CA and Triton Museum CA. Ellen’s work is included in over 500 private collections around the world as well as the public collections of UCSF Mission Bay, San Francisco CA, the University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, Phipps Botanic Garden, Pittsburgh PA, and multiple Kaiser Permanente hospitals throughout CA.

For more information, check out the article in LUXE magazine, which talks about her work

https://luxesource.com/article/ellen-little-san-francisco-watercolor-artist