Cheri Ellis

www.cheriaellis.com look book /// NOTJUSTALABEL.com/CHERI_A_ELLIS www.facebook.com/cheri/ellis1 Cheri Ellis is a self taught artist, a cross disciplined artist who chose to learn the development of different mediums though a series of constant, self created challenges. Drawing and painting were the first mediums explored by Cheri, her style was detail oriented from the very beginning. Throughout Cheri\'s creative evolution, her art on paper and fabric would come to express her internal self. For this reason Cheri has practiced these disciplines in a more private manner for the sake of self exploration. In 1992 Cheri began her millinery business with children\'s hats. Developing into a ten year time-span, the hats evolved into women\'s millinery where the shapes became sculptural and costume like in their expansion. In 2003 Cheri began to make dresses. A lifetime passion for art on paper, art on fabric, along with the intertwining of the female form and its metaphoric voice of feminine wisdom, inspired Cheri\'s desire to to begin this new medium. The designing and making of skirts, dresses and coats, has become more than a personal expression. In this medium came the idea of women taking back the connetion to their own bodies by the wearing of hand-made art. Cheri\'s artistic vision has been one that she defines as a \'lifestyle\'. To constantly create, to to be resourceful, has become an alternative to consumerism. As each medium has come into fruition in her life, its rewards have been to provide for