Phyllis Bryce Ely is a painter based in Ontario, New York. She paints energized landscapes inspired by the water, land, ice, and stormy skies of the Lake Ontario shoreline, Finger Lakes region, and western New York. Phyllis is an active plein air painter and also works from her studio in Rochester, NY, painting primarily in oil and encaustic wax. She has recently been working on a series of large graphite drawings, bringing layered line work into her oil and encaustic wax practices.
Phyllis earned a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has maintained a studio practice since the early 1980s. She has furthered her work in plein air painting and encaustic wax by attending events and workshops in the US and abroad. Phyllis has presented workshops and is a past painting instructor at the Memorial Art Gallery and currently serves on the boards of The Dove Block Project in Geneva, NY and the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters. She has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally, receiving multiple awards and recognitions over the years. Her work is included in many private and public collections. Phyllis is represented by the Oxford Gallery in Rochester, NY.