Ellen Levine Dodd is a full-time Northern California artist whose practice focuses on painting, photography, and fine art prints. Her work is boldly colored and richly textured, with multiple layers, scratched, sanded, carved into, and drawn onto. Her vision is emotional, expressionistic, and positive with brightly colored gestural brushwork, a strong sense of story and symbolism, and a passionate reference to the preservation of the landscape. Dodd grew up in a small New England beach town near Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Clark University on an art scholarship where she studied painting at the Worcester Museum School and photography at the Worcester Craft Center. During her junior year she took a sabbatical and traveled to Europe, Israel, and the Middle East, focusing on photography and cultural studies. After retuning home, she studied photography and printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA, eventually completing her BA in Fine Art with a double major in painting and photography at Sonoma State University.