Ellen Rice Studio of Fine Art
  • Home
  • Originals
    • Original oils and pastels
    • Commemorative Celebration Series
    • Paintings in Progress
    • Commissions
  • Strength of Women Series
    • About the Strength of Woman Series
    • Standing on the Rock Vol I
    • The Journey Vol II
    • No Way Out Vol III
    • Freedom Vol 4
    • The Narrow path Vol V
    • Reflection Vol VI
    • In God's Hands Vol VII
    • Whatsoever things are lovely Vol VIII
    • Crystal Block Series
    • Stretched Canvases
  • Celebration Series
  • Prints
    • Indian River Inlet
    • Seascapes and Beach
    • Bay and Marsh Paintings
    • Trees in the Landscape
    • Maps & Treasure Coast History
    • Lighthouses, Coast Guard Stations & Delaware's Watchtowers
    • Mountains & Waterfalls
    • Paintings Created to Uplift
    • Children
    • Dogs & Cats
    • Horses & Chincoteague Island Ponies
    • Nature and Wildlife
    • Pen, Ink & Watercolor
  • ELLEN'S SMALL GIFTS
    • New Strength Woman Crystal Block Series
    • Porcelain Ornaments featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Wall clocks featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Playing cards featuring shore paintings by Ellen Rice
    • Coasters featuring summertime coastal paintings by Ellen Rice
    • 15 oz. Ceramic Mugs featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Jewelry Keepsake Boxes featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Mousepads featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Bookmarks featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Journals featuring Ellen Rice paintings
  • News & Events
  • American Fine Craft
    • CL Whiting Leaf Leather >
      • Card Cases & Other Small Accessories
      • Classic Handbags
      • Coinpurse & Cosmetic
      • Leather-Edged Bags
      • Small Bags
      • Totes
      • Working Bags
      • Men's Wallets
      • Women's Wallets
    • RAKU - JDavis Inner Spirit Rattles
    • GLASS ART
    • JEWELRY BY THE SHORE >
      • Austin Cake's Sun Sea Sand Sea Glass Jewelry
      • Meg's Prism Sea Glass Jewelry
      • Kim Doughty-Cavagnaro
    • ORNAMENTS >
      • Peter & Robin Morris Copper Ornaments
    • Margie and Bill Lombard
  • About
    • About Ellen Rice
    • Our Staff
    • About Ellen Rice Prints
    • About the Studio
    • Services & Policies
  • Visit the studio, where & when
  • Special Offers
    • Virtual Wall
  • GIFT CARDS
  • Contact

Come Along with Me
'Come along with me to a place by the sea where yesterday meets today' ~ Marianne Somers

Picture
Vertical Divider
20" x 30" oil on canvas and archival gicle'e prints
​by Ellen Rice

Original sold. Prints available.
PRINT OPTIONS & PURCHASE
RETURN TO MENU
A tale of two roads
Oil on Canvas by Ellen Rice
Vertical Divider

​
I was in my "printing room" a few weeks ago rummaging around for a file when something drifted down from above. It's amazing how often I find something I need that I didn't know I needed when looking for something else.

I stopped and gazed at the faded 1920s photograph in my hand. I knew from the format that it must have been taken by my doctor-Admiral grandfather early on in my grandparents' married life -- an escapee from a family album that recently came to me after my mother's death. 

What drew me was its subject. Though minus the color and at a different time of year, it was very close to the scene I was painting in my studio down the hall, one I'd been painstakingly working on for seven months. 

My grandparents were married in Lewes, Delaware, within weeks of my grandfather earning his medical degree. Waiting until then had been their pledge to their parents when they'd fallen in love eight years earlier. I grew up in their home and they were more like parents than my real ones. Grandfather was a talented philanthropic, off-the-charts genius who in his long career was a Presidential physician, commander of Bethesda Naval Medical Center, inventor of the portable x-ray machine, lecturer and author of textbooks about atomic medicine, among other things. Photography was a hobby that brought him pleasure.

The reverence with which he was looked upon by everyone in my family made me approach him with great awe and shyness. When available, he lovingly read bedtime stories to me, answered my countless questions about everything in the universe, picked out the constellations while star gazing on the wooden swing in the back yard at night, correctly prophesied what man would find on the moon, and played the piano like the concert pianist he almost became. 

He was old school, though, and as I reached my teens he advised me that women shouldn't attempt to becoming doctors, archeologists, join the Peace Corp, the Navy or anything else I dreamed of doing to make a difference in the world. A woman's place was as a wife and mother and homemaker. 

I tried that for 28 years, and as my marriage drew to a close, I prayed my way through carving my own path with what talents I had and proceeded to become a successful, self-taught, portrait artist, journalist and painter of everything that stirs my heart, among them now a tree-shaded lane that could have stepped out of a photo taken 90 some years ago. 

Holding that picture (see below), I felt a deep connection to my Grandfather. Though our life paths and accomplishments are so many light years apart, at two moments in time we admired the same thing and captured it in a form others could enjoy – even almost a century later. 

I hope you enjoy my painted moment, "Come Along With Me...." 

Ellen
Picture
Grandfather's pic from the 1920s.
Vertical Divider
Picture
Picture
Picture
30124 Territory Trail 
"The Reservation", Ocean View, DE 19970 

Hours: Weds, Fri, Sat 10-4; Sun: 11 to 3
(302) 539-3405
Picture

Search website 
​CONTACT US
SERVICES & POLICIES
​
​WHOLESALE INQUIRIES
Picture

  To be among the first to learn about Ellen's debuting fine art, events and other studio news,
sign up for Ellen's eNewsletter ​below and select your area(s) of interest. 
Your privacy is important to us, and we do not sell or share your information with anyone, ever.
Email:
​All images, design and text Copyright Ellen Rice Associates, LLC, Ocean View, Delaware, 2024. All rights reserved.
  • Home
  • Originals
    • Original oils and pastels
    • Commemorative Celebration Series
    • Paintings in Progress
    • Commissions
  • Strength of Women Series
    • About the Strength of Woman Series
    • Standing on the Rock Vol I
    • The Journey Vol II
    • No Way Out Vol III
    • Freedom Vol 4
    • The Narrow path Vol V
    • Reflection Vol VI
    • In God's Hands Vol VII
    • Whatsoever things are lovely Vol VIII
    • Crystal Block Series
    • Stretched Canvases
  • Celebration Series
  • Prints
    • Indian River Inlet
    • Seascapes and Beach
    • Bay and Marsh Paintings
    • Trees in the Landscape
    • Maps & Treasure Coast History
    • Lighthouses, Coast Guard Stations & Delaware's Watchtowers
    • Mountains & Waterfalls
    • Paintings Created to Uplift
    • Children
    • Dogs & Cats
    • Horses & Chincoteague Island Ponies
    • Nature and Wildlife
    • Pen, Ink & Watercolor
  • ELLEN'S SMALL GIFTS
    • New Strength Woman Crystal Block Series
    • Porcelain Ornaments featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Wall clocks featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Playing cards featuring shore paintings by Ellen Rice
    • Coasters featuring summertime coastal paintings by Ellen Rice
    • 15 oz. Ceramic Mugs featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Jewelry Keepsake Boxes featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Mousepads featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Bookmarks featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Journals featuring Ellen Rice paintings
  • News & Events
  • American Fine Craft
    • CL Whiting Leaf Leather >
      • Card Cases & Other Small Accessories
      • Classic Handbags
      • Coinpurse & Cosmetic
      • Leather-Edged Bags
      • Small Bags
      • Totes
      • Working Bags
      • Men's Wallets
      • Women's Wallets
    • RAKU - JDavis Inner Spirit Rattles
    • GLASS ART
    • JEWELRY BY THE SHORE >
      • Austin Cake's Sun Sea Sand Sea Glass Jewelry
      • Meg's Prism Sea Glass Jewelry
      • Kim Doughty-Cavagnaro
    • ORNAMENTS >
      • Peter & Robin Morris Copper Ornaments
    • Margie and Bill Lombard
  • About
    • About Ellen Rice
    • Our Staff
    • About Ellen Rice Prints
    • About the Studio
    • Services & Policies
  • Visit the studio, where & when
  • Special Offers
    • Virtual Wall
  • GIFT CARDS
  • Contact