Ellen Surrey
Ellen Surrey’s illustrations glow with the warmth of a sun faded postcard, channeling mid-century design and vintage children’s book aesthetics into richly textured compositions. Her work transforms everyday scenes into nostalgic visual stories where bold color, hand-rendered texture and a deep affection for the past feel effortlessly contemporary.
The New York Times, The New Yorker, Google, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Penguin Random House, Little Brown Young Readers, Chronicle Chroma, Nosy Crow, Papyrus, Bristol Farms, Airbnb, Curbed, USPS, Snap Chat, American Greetings, Sunkist, UCLA, Washington Post, LA Philharmonic, SFMoMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Map and portrait promoting the exhibition Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Becoming an Early Bird
Wishful Thinking
Wine Enthusiast
Podcast illustration for California’s Women in Wine
Spare Change
The New York Times
Portrait of Jancee Dunn, health and lifestyle columnist
Pool Party
Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles