Samantha Ellis Fox ​

Christmas Tree Dress - oil on canvas

​(Northern Irish Born 1969.)
In 2021 Samantha Ellis Fox exhibited at the prestigious Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries London.  In 2019, Samantha has had work accepted at three Royal Art Academies; The Royal Hibernian Academy, 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Royal Ulster Academy 138th Annual Exhibition, Belfast and The Royal Scottish Academy, 193rd Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh.  In 2022 Samantha’s work was accepted at the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London where she was overall regional winner for Northern Ireland.  Her work is held in private and public collections including that of the Office of Public Works and the Northern Ireland Department of Finance and Personnel.   Her work has also been recently included in The Public Catalogue Foundation “Oil Paintings in Public Ownership”.  Over the “Lock Down” period Samantha was involved in Portraits for Heroes initiative,and the “The Drawing Box” initiative where she created five A5 small pieces on paper and these have travelled together with other international artists worldwide including New Mexico, Australia, Lithuania, Scotland and Belgium, which have since been bought by the National Archives of Ireland and will remain in public ownership.  Her work focuses on the portrait of the child, where Samantha makes use of a variety of mediums: oil, graphite, & charcoal.  Samantha has been recently invited to produce portrait work for an exhibition in LA, at the Sasse Museum of Art.