Veron Ennis Artist Studio

04/12/2020

HE IS RISEN!!! Finally!! Longest. Lent. Ever. We love all of you so much and pray you all have miraculous Easters. God Bless You and your families!!

04/03/2020

I don’t know who the artist of this drawing is, but I know the subject. I love and care for all of you out there and am praying for you. I’m only one, small person, but I matter. So do you. ❤️🙏

10/11/2019

I’m a painter...of sculptures. 🤷‍♀️ 10 or so years ago I had a flash of what I felt was the perfect painting idea. In only seconds I could clearly see all the mechanics and how it would work. A six sided painting, that you could rotate and would balance on its corner. With what little I had then, I spent $14 dollars at the hardware store to buy wood, hinges, screws, bolts, and nut caps. I stretched my own canvas, glued paper, and made the first “cube”.

The first show, they all sold. Since then, their design and construction has changed and grown into the fine woodworking and engineering seen here.

The experience is similar to reading story boards, turning and flipping to each page, building on the one previously and introducing you to the next.

But there’s more! They open. Not just as a box would, but outstretched arms unfurl and the whole painting aligns, and hangs on the wall. Then you can step back and observe the entire ensemble at once.

It’s pure fun. It’s play to create as the artist and play to enjoy as the viewer. Of course it’s a serious undertaking and I take it seriously, but the eternal child that is my loving heart purely enjoys the puzzle.

“Aeropause Return”
Larger photos and info on my website 👉🏻
https://veronennis.com/aeropause-return
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09/18/2019

Mountain Sunset Art Print

This print seems to be gaining quick popularity on Fy! *big smile* I just became searchable on their website as well. This is one of my favorite paintings because of the watermelon color under the orange. If this was a dress, I'd wear it!

Fine art print using sunlight-resistant inks on cotton mix archival paper. This piece will be printed using state-of-the-art digital giclée printers. Your print will last a lifetime and remain as vibrant as the day it came off the press. • Available in multiple sizes • Trimmed with a 2cm / 1" b...

09/13/2019

Last night I attended the opening for “Expiation” - artworks by at the Embassy of Argentina in DC. Ana and I have been trying to meet in person for two years and finally had the chance! As she put it best, “We loved each other’s art first, now the person.” Isn’t that beautiful? When your work really speaks to who you are and people are drawn to you by it, it has a wonderful purpose: relationships. Cheers to good friends, my sisters and brothers in life.

09/11/2019

Stare Into The Sun With Me Art Print

I’m so excited that Fy picked up, not only prints of my paintings, but also my new digital designs! Check them out! They have handmade modern furniture, textiles, and artwork from artists all over the world and everything is nicely curated so you don’t drown in repetitive options. Let me know what you think!

Fine art print using sunlight-resistant inks on cotton mix archival paper. This piece will be printed using state-of-the-art digital giclée printers. Your print will last a lifetime and remain as vibrant as the day it came off the press. • Available in multiple sizes • Trimmed with a 2cm / 1" b...

09/05/2019

MAC is BACK. This FL gallery is thankfully safe and open again after the hurricane. You can see my cube ‘Cobalt Summer’ on the center wall under the blue painting. Contact for info and swipe for more pics. @ Fort Lauderdale, Florida

09/03/2019

We adopted chicks!! Mountain living includes all sorts of exciting extras, like a variety of bugs that bite me...but good news!! - Chickens eat bugs, they love to be outside in the dirt, and they lay delicious eggs. Our family goes through eggs like crazy so it’s all a win. I also happen to love the background noises of chirps, clucks, and feathers rustling.

07/11/2019

Headed to places of inspiration any chance I get. Can’t beat this one just minutes from the studio!

06/28/2019

COMING SOON!! Unbelievably cool products based on my paintings!!! 😱✨⚡️🔥

06/24/2019

I put my feverish one year old (from vaccines😬) down for his nap and my sweet but loud eight year old woke him up ten minutes later. Le sigh. So I had Liam make up for it by creating some interesting sandwiches 🥪 and packing a lunch bag for all of us. This way I could try to get the baby to sleep in the car. Though I was in a dress and suede flats and Liam was in flip flops, after driving for a few I decided I’d revisit a hike I hadn’t seen since high school. Baby on my hip and our lunch in a pack, we hiked the short hike to Bears Den in Virginia.

06/17/2019

Timeline photos

06/16/2019

Can’t get enough of these colors. Mustard yellow and teal are my top two!! Mixed and ready to go in the studio but I still have a long way to go with the rest of the colors.

06/08/2019

We are the stewards of our dear earth and here is a project that will make a real difference.
I’m headed out kayaking on the Potomac after working hard today to celebrate. Makes me think that just as a river joins with the others to feed the ocean, so too can one person join with others to better our planet! Check out this repost from .app and for more info! 🐬🌍

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05/31/2019

Let me explain...🌵🤷‍♀️
During the beginning stages of a new series of work, I spend weeks, sometimes more, collecting color inspiration and compiling these images into files. And by files, I mean loosely organized in various ways on my phone, computer, and studio tables. This gorgeous 📷 photo by is a beautiful example of four of the colors I’m considering including in my upcoming work. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be mixing a carefully chosen family of colors into jars. Sometimes I’m on the phone with my friend while I’m agonizing over getting a color just right and it provides him with plenty of entertainment as he drinks his coffee and edits photos. 😂🤣 I’ll never forget all the days I’d be in my studio I back in Florida mixing and mixing, checking in the sunlight, mixing some more all morning- in the meantime my studio neighbor would have painted like three fantastic paintings. David: “Veron, come look at these paintings and tell me what you think...what have you done today?...” Me: “I made red.”🤦🏼‍♀️🤣🤣🤣

05/28/2019

How to make Sunset Peach: 🌅 Grab the jar of bubblegum pink that was supposed to be dusty rose that you ditched last painting. Add the solid orange that you had Golden custom mix that you cleverly labeled as “orange.” 😂🤣Realize it’s too strong and add Titan Buff from the tube, stat. Add more....then more...ok the rest of it. Keep stirring with that stir stick while you look for the drill that you’d rather use but for some reason is no longer in your studio. 🤔 Walk outside and check the color in natural light and...voila!!! .

05/23/2019

Way to work that orange!! MAC is great at placing the right work in the right space for a happy client. Thanks everyone at MAC Fine Art and big hugs from up north! The painting Lift 33 featured below is also on my website. https://veronennis.com/lift-33

05/16/2019

The yellows and pinks in the blooming flowers right now reminded me of this painting that I made in 2013. A very talented, brilliant, and beautiful woman owns it now and that makes me so glad. 🌺✨You know who you are. 😉 Anyway- can you believe how beautiful this spring is? Here is the mountains of WV, we’ve had a ton of rain. Maybe that has to do with all the blooms. This painting, though it was thought of after seeing flowers, was actually inspired by the high rise apartment I used to live in and the epic sunrises and sunsets I could see from our balconies. We were on the 22nd floor on the river in downtown Fort Myers, Florida and could see for miles. No mountains there, but the sky was the big show. There is so much beauty to appreciate out there. What’s the big show where you live? The water? Snow? Huge sequoias? Have a great day and stay thankful! 🥰🤩🙏

“Concordian Return”
2013
36”x36”
Acrylic Mixed Medium on Wood Panel

05/13/2019

“Atlas Lights” ✨
@ Douglas Flanders & Associates
11 x 11 x 11" (Closed), 28 x 21" (Open)
Acrylic, Paper, Wood, 2016

"(Ennis's) sculptures are comprised of six paintings on wood panels hinged together to form a cube, which can balance on any of its corners, edges or planes. When unlatched, the structure unfolds to be exhibited on a wall with any orientation." -The Baker Museum @ Douglas Flanders Art Gallery

05/13/2019

05/12/2019

Timeline photos

05/01/2019

Color inspiration from the plant nursery! When I was a teen, I worked at a beautiful nursery in the foothills of Virginia with my best friend . Then years and years later, I had the miraculous opportunity to work with her in floral design. Though I’m an artist as my main career, any opportunity to flex my creative muscles is exciting and fresh! These special parts of my past developed my love for flowers and plants and now they serve as powerful inspirations for me. I chose these beauties for my front flower beds that get just enough sun through the trees to give our home a splash of vibrant color. Happy Easter and Happy Spring everyone!!

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04/28/2019

My dear friends, this is a project I stand behind and believe can really make a difference. Please read Jesse Uzzell’s letter and follow the link to the GoFundMe page. This platform is the future and provides something we all benefit from- a cleaner, safer planet. My work is inspired by the beautiful landscapes of our earth. I need them to stay beautiful to keep making beautiful art! Feel free to message me your thoughts on this project. I’m interested to know what you think.
Peace,
Veron

10/18/2018

This is exactly what I was referring to when I wrote about mixing paint to be the mint tone of the mountains. Particularly the Blue Ridge. In my last post I wrote “The misty mountain mornings or even hazy afternoons can produce a slight mint tone to the distant foliage. As if the blue sky were a tinted lens over the green leaves of far off trees. This was the inspiration for the minty color mixed for ‘Guardians East’, my most recent cube. (Link in bio)”

Thank you for capturing this beloved characteristic so well!! 📷⛰

10/18/2018

The misty mountain mornings or even hazy afternoons can produce a slight mint tone to the distant foliage. As if the blue sky were a tinted lens over the green leaves of far off trees. This was the inspiration for the minty color mixed for ‘Guardians East’, my most recent cube. (Link in bio)

10/08/2018

Here is my promised commentary on the inspiration of 'Guardians East'! Have a great week everyone and thank you for your curiosity!

Inspired by the nurturing majesty of the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains, Guardians East is a summation of how it feels to be in and amongst these ancient ranges. My family home is situated on a ridge-line bordering the Harpers Ferry National Park and backs up the Appalachian Trail. Our commutes take us over and through these mountains from West Virginia to Maryland to Northern Virginia. We drive down to the Shenandoah and Potomac River and up over Keyes Gap almost daily. What I’ve remembered from childhood, returned to, and rediscovered is the deep healing as well as the opportunity to thrive found in these hills.

My process with this cube began with translating the feeling of living, in the full sense of the word, here in these mountains and valleys. Starting with layers of a Spring pink and a bright mint, the symbolic skies took form. This is how I breath the energetic air that is so clean and crisp. Representative topographic map forms were drawn next, overlaying the skyscape. Grounded with a stone gray, I pulled smooth paint forming the silhouettes of the mountain range sections. I gilded the ridge lines on each panel with 23k gold leaf to emphasize the many paths in, through, and around these mountains. The tops of each topographic elevation is gilded with a geometric form, slightly rubbed away, symbolic of the ancient age of each mountaintop. Finally, hand-drawn symbols, simple and familiar, were drawn floating in the foreground as if marking a path.

There are several metaphors for life found in this work. Notably the undulating silhouettes of the mountains. Life has its peaks and valleys. Even at the top, small dips can be experienced, and at the lowest points in life, there can be small rises, enough to keep our chin up. The rock or foundation that keeps us steady, even in the harshest of storms, in my case- my faith, is symbolized by the steadfast, solid, mountain my house is built on. The parable of the man who built his house on shifting sand versus the man who build upon the rock is exemplified in my life both spiritually and in actuality. Here, I paint this strength in solid gray and adorn it in gold. The gold is the result. The bright wonderment that comes from a life in these hills. The daily glistening of all that is beautiful shines through during good times and in not so good times. Whatever it is that happens, the mountain still stands. It still thrives with life. The springs run down to feed the rivers. The rivers flow out to the bay, and to the ocean. The trees grow, the animals roam, the clouds move, and the sun will shine. And finally, the white markings, like the white hashes on the Appalachian Trail, are symbolic of two things: the gift we are given by those before us on how to follow the path, as well as the marking we leave behind to guide others that follow.

These are the most prevailing thoughts on this work from my own experiences. You are invited to open wide your imagination and pull from the work anything that sparks an idea unique to you. There is no right or wrong way to feel when you look at the paintings of this sculpture. Please explore, taking your time to enjoy viewing this work of art and feel free to share your thoughts! Thank you everyone for your continual support and encouragement!

10/06/2018

HERE IT IS!!! Titled “Guardians East,” this cube is officially out there. Silhouettes of the ancient Appalachian and Blue Ridge mountains are gilded with 23k gold leaf. Familiar shapes of topographic maps rise into a minty sky. Hand drawn symbols mark each panel. I could go on and on. 😊 I’ll be posting the open version of this cube soon and more on its inspiration. Thanks everyone for a great First Friday!!!

10/03/2018

I’m very excited to reveal a new cube THIS FRIDAY at the studio space downtown Leesburg. It’s been hard not to post tons of progress photos but I liked the idea of the big reveal. Also, I needed the space to flex on this one.

CLUE: This cube is inspired by the unmovable mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland that graciously host my family, my neighbors, the Appalachian Trail and all its hikers, the roads and all their travelers, and everyone who has come and gone through this wellspring of beauty and abundance.

See you Friday in person or check back to see photos!

PS I love hearing of your experiences in these mountains or on the trail. Feel free to share one with me. ⛰

09/19/2015

TOMORROW!! PRINTS FOR PEACE! For the 8th Annual Peace Day in the Park on Sept 20th, I've provided the last remaining prints of Panel 3 from my Champagne series to be sold at the main booth during the event. They are $20/each and 50% goes to support the Peace Day in the Park project! Visit here for more info about this awesome event: http://buff.ly/1KnnWEm

09/18/2015

What a feature of us in Magazine - ! Illuminum London http://buff.ly/1KdBy4Z

09/18/2015

? Panel 4 from my Champagne series seems to resemble this Imperial Fighter. http://buff.ly/1W0eJHk

09/16/2015

Perfect Pair! New Painting "Lift 33" and Cube Sculpture "Pop Dusk" at MAC Fine Art in and http://buff.ly/1LcVyXo

09/16/2015

PRINTS FOR PEACE! For the 8th Annual Peace Day in the Park on Sept 20th, I've provided the last remaining prints of Panel 3 from my Champagne series to be sold at the main booth during the event. They are $20/each and 50% goes to support the Peace Day in the Park project! Visit here for more info about this awesome event: http://buff.ly/1Nzy40G

09/15/2015

Join Me in Thirty Days of Art Making — Love Letters

Matt Steel invites you - "Join Me in Thirty Days of Art Making" — Love Letters

Hello Friends,

09/11/2015

Young Professional Spotlight: Veron Ennis

"Young Professional Spotlight: Veron Ennis" - Thank you News-Press and all involved, especially Nicole Forbis, for selecting me for the Young Professional Spotlight! I love our community and I'm so happy to have the opportunity to share my experience through this cool new platform.

Veron Ennis gives credit to a very supportive SWFL art scene for helping her find success in her blossoming art career.