Ellen Zimet was born in New York City but moved at age 7 to Brookline, Massachusetts where she lived until she was seventeen. After graduating from Brookline High School where she majored in art, she was accepted to Pratt Institute in New York City where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Fashion Design and Merchandising.

Like so many others, her life's journey took her down a wide variety of paths, which included fashion design, merchandising, teaching art and ceramics in middle schools, writing grants, serving as an administrator in the Los Angeles Unified School District at the school and district levels and finally as an educational consultant working throughout California and neighboring states. She has a master’s degree in counseling and secondary education from California State University, Northridge.

Now retired and living half time in Ontario, California and half time in Warrenton, Oregon, she has had the opportunity to return to her first love - art. She has been studying with Karen Werner and Fealing Lin in California and many of the wonderful watercolor artists at Trail’s End Art Association including Jo Pomeroy Crockett, Judith Fredrikson and Sheila Parsons.

In California, Ellen is a member of the Associated Artists of the Inland Empire and the Chaffey Art Association. In Oregon, she is a member of Trails End Art Association in Gearhart, Oregon and the Palette Puddlers of Cannon Beach, Oregon and is a non-juried member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon.

Her website, ellenzimet.com shows the variety of media in which she works. Many of her paintings are done using Citrasolv on National Geographic pages. She uses the altered papers as additions to enhance her paintings and has won several awards in their online contests. She can be reached on her website, ellenzimet.com or by e-mail at ellenzimet@earthlink.net.

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