Ellen Dreibelbis, PSA, SPS, APOW
1124 Hollywood Ave. #1
Oakland, CA., 94602
(510) 530-6130
ellendreibelbis@cronos.net
www.artshow.com/apow/dreibelbis

An artist since childhood, Ellen Dreibelbis has worked in watercolor, printmaking, acrylics, and textiles before finding her way to pastels. She has always loved to draw, and was delighted to find this way of combining drawing and painting, and by the immediacy of the results. For 25 years, Dreibelbis did library reference work, rising at 4:00 to paint before work. All this changed in 1993 when she was selected by Citibank, N.A., to create 6 paintings which they reproduced as prints and sent to their top corporate clients. Dreibelbis left the library, and since then her art has been reproduced as children's books, book and magazine covers, posters, and limited edition prints for such clients as the American Library Association, Macmillan/McGraw Hill, and Cricket Magazine.

In 1997, Dreibelbis decided to focus on her fine art paintings of figures and portraits. Since that time, her work has been featured in many top national juried shows including the American Academy of Women Artists Show, the Degas Pastel Society Show, the Pastel Society of the Southwest Show, and the Sierra Pastel Society Show, winning awards at this show, as well as the Pastel Society of America, and the Associated Pastellists on the Web, among others. She is a Signature Member of the Sierra Pastel Society, and the Associated Pastellists on the Web, and her biography is featured in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, and the British International Dictionary of Biography. She is a Member of the Allied Artists of America, the American Society of Portrait Artists, and the Degas Pastel Society.