2003
Artist Lena Ennis
"The Blessing of the Fleet"
 

Lena Ennis grew up in Carteret County where she resides today with her husband and two children. She began her life in art at an early age, learning to draw and paint from her grandmother, a southwestern landscape artist. She attended the School of Art at East Carolina University and moved back home to Carteret County spending several years working as the exclusive commercial artist for a local advertising agency. During this time, as a commercial artist, she designed ads and logos for many social events and businesses including: The Carteret County Chamber of Commerce, The Pepsi New River Heritage Festival and the North Carolina Civil War Commemorative Committee. Two of her designs were selected to be reproduced on T-shirts for the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament.

Her first public exhibit was at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum in December of 2000. She was selected as featured artist for the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum in 2001, which included being commissioned to paint the artwork for their 2001-2002 museum poster.

Today, her work is based mostly on privately commissioned pieces with subjects in wildlife and portraiture and can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the southern United States.

She is represented by the gallery at Arts and Things on the waterfront in Morehead City, NC and by the gallery at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum, Harkers Island, NC.


 

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