Eleanor
Voorhees

Eleanor Voorhees lives in Lambertville, NJ with her husband and two daughters. Eleanor studied art in Tuscany with the University of Georgia during an exchange program in 1993 while attending the University of Delaware. After being awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Delaware in 1994, Eleanor took a job in the art department of a New York City publisher, did freelance illustrating and later, worked for architect Michael Graves...all the time dreaming of opening her own fine art studio. In 1998 Eleanor started her own fine art business initially painting large residential murals inspired by the old masters.  
 Now 20 years later Eleanor Voorhees has been fulfilling fine art and mural commissions for private clients and interior designers nationwide.  In 2012 she opened her own gallery which includes her working studio on the third floor of the People’s Store at 28 N. Union St. in Lambertville, NJ.  While Eleanor Voorhees’ has placed over 300 of her traditional oil paintings in private collections worldwide in the last 6 years alone, it’s her most recent urban and fashion inspired mixed media work that is getting the most attention. Wanting something more out of her art and the desire to evolve has recently brought her art to a new level. She describes this transformation as more than just an artistic breakthrough, she refers to it as her midlife epiphany. Drawing from boxes of vintage flea market jewelry, buttons, clothespins, wires, cocktail swivel sticks, fabric and more she literally builds using texture to create three dimensional cityscapes. She then paints entirely in oil upon the surface of the mixed media materials creating a three dimensional painting, a little world that invites the viewer to dwell.