Ellen Montelius Comics & Illustration
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Gardening journal
​Follow my illustrated gardening journal on instagram. I will be illustrating work in the garden throughout the year from  preparing the flower and vegetable beds, to  sowing, growing the plants. Hopefully with care and a bit of luck, collect a good harvest.  I love to grow cut flowers, veggies and herbs sustainably without pesticides, using organic methods such as bio control and peat free compost. 

PictureI made pdf zines to upload, and print onto an A4 paper. DIY assemble and hand colour.

Mini Zines to print, assemble and colour

I created educational diy mini zines for The Heritage Lottery Funded, Tunbridge Wells based Cross Pollination Project.  Each mini zine raises an awareness on the importance of pollinators. Simply download the pdf to print at home. The pdf can be found on the Cross Pollination Project 
website.  Each zine(four zines in total) is easy to assemble  by simply downloading the pdf and printing onto an A4 sized paper.  Follow the website page instructions on how to cut and fold the paper to make a mini zine.  The zine can be stitched together and coloured by hand.  

The images below are an overview showing the content of the mini zines that can be downloaded and printed from the Cross Pollination Project website.
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Cross Pollination Project
I designed the logo and I am a co-creator of the Heritage Lottery funded CPP.   The aims of the project is the conservation of pollinating insects by means of scientific study, 
raising awareness of the plight of bees and initiating pro-action to create a tapestry of bee friendly plants in urban and suburban settings. Through collaboration the project will cross-pollinate knowledge
and skills by the means of science, conservation and art to ensure that the significance of these vitally important species is maintained.  
For more info, click here. 

Cross Pollination illustrations for my Cross Pollination Project talks on the Honey Harvest and Bees in Winter. 
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When the Change Came 
I often collaborate with writers because words and images can be powerful and emotive when combined.  Poet Steve Walter asked me to illustrate one of his poems for his pamphlet front cover.  






 

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I am one of ten Associate Artists who participated in  Spreadsheets and Moxie, a year long R&D project, funded by Arts Council England, in which Viccy Adams and Sarah Salway work in tandem, with partner organisations and ten very talented Associate Artists, to take a rounded approach to professionalism in the Creative Arts, with a particular focus on leadership for women writers.

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I was honoured to be long-listed for the
highly prestigious
​ Myriad Editions 2014 First Graphic Novel competition for my
​story 'AutoDefrost'.

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Four comic pages of my  work in progress. 

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I collaborated with Sarah Salway to illustrate her short story 'Potassium Man' in a comic.  

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I produced comic work 'Vanishing Point' for an exciting creative group called Fractals.  

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I created a two page comic Bridge Cafe and designed the book Coffee Shots for stories written about coffee and cafes. produced by The  Word Circle, a talented group of six writers who meet regularly at the Javabean, Tunbridge Wells.

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Band without Boundaries promotional illustration  for one of my workshops on the importance of bees. After my talk, Band without Boundaries composed a piece of music on the theme of honey bees.  

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