Ellen Dreibelbis
Seeing Beyond
Pastel
28" x 19"
$1800
Carribbean Women
with Oranges
Pastel
18" x 12"
$1000
Going Within
Oil on Canvas
20" x 16"
$1450
Implied Landscape -
Tomales Bay
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1800
Julia's Serape
Oil on Canvas
24" x 18"
$1800
Little White Mare
Oil on Canvas
16" x 12"
$1100
Peruvian Village
Pastel
16" x 12"
$1000
Sardinian Sisters
Oil on Canvas
24" x 20"
$1700
Seated Woman
Pastel
18" x 12"
$1000
The Sweeper
Pastel
18" x 12"
$1100
Woman Bearing
Pears
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1400
Shy Woman w/Calla
Lilies
Giclee
13" x 16"
$500
A Gift of Peonies
Pastel
16" x 12"
$950
A Man of Peace
Oil on Linen Panel
24" x 20"
$3800
Black Man in a  
Basket Chair
Pastel
18" x 12"
$950
Remembrance of
Things Past
Giclee
10" x 8"
$425
Clarity
Pastel
28" x 19"
$1600
Contemporary Icon
Oil on Panel
16" x 12"
$950
Dancer Absorbed
Pastel
12" x 9"
$600
Dinner a Deux
Giclee
28" x 20"
$500
Duet
Pastel
24" x 18"
$2000
Focus
Giclee
20" x 13.75
$600
For a Few Precious
Moments
Giclee
24" x 18"
$600
Girl Reading
Giclee
7" x 4"
$375
Head of a Woman
Oil on Panel
20" x 16"
$1600
Hearing the Music
Pastel
12" x 9"
$600
Hope
Oil on Panel
16" x 12"
$1100
Inspiration
Pastel, Ink
12" x 9"
$600
Jazz Duet
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1400
Jazz
Giclee
14" x 8"
$500
Lakota Woman
Oil on Linen
20" x 16"
$2800
Lone Sax
Giclee
26" x 22"
$650
Lotus
Pastel on Sanded
Paper
16" x 12"
$850
Luminous Sunflower
Pastel
12" x 9"
$875
Making Music
Pastel and Ink
12" x 9"
$600
Man with Fish
Giclee
18" x 14"
$400
Mexican Girls
Reading
Giclee
18" x 12"
$500
Michael
Giclee
16" x 13"
$375
Morning Fog
Pastel
16" x 12"
$1100
Native Man
Giclee
12" x 12"
$475
Navaho Wisdom
Oil on Canvas
12" x 12"
$1000
Nothing Lasts
Forever
Oil on Canvas
28" x 22"
$3500
One with the Earth
Giclee
16" x 12.5"
$600
Origins
Watercolor
12" x 9"
$600
Out of Nothing
Giclee
12" x 9"
$500
Peruvian Girl with
Sunflower
Giclee
18" x 12"
$500
Pianist with Listener
Giclee
12" x 9"
$325
Portrait of a Monk
Pastel
16" x 12"
$950
Portrait of a Tibetan
Woman
Pastel
16" x 12"
$950
Rockridge
Pastel
24" x 18"
$2200
Saturday Night
Giclee
14" x 10.75"
$500
Sonoma Sunset
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1400
Sunday Morning
Giclee
16" x 12.25"
$500
Sunflowers in a
Bottle
Giclee
12" x 9"
$425
Sunset
Giclee
24" x 18"
$600
Take 5
Pastel
27" x 19"
$1800
Tea and Memories
Oil on Canvas
20" x 16"
$2800
Temptation
Giclee
14.25" x 12"
$400
The Basket Maker
Oil on Linen
16" x 12"
$1200
The Gleaners
Oil on Linen
16" x 12"
$1200
The Laughing Monk
Giclee
16" x 12.5"
$500
The Offering
Oil on Linen
16" x 12"
$1400
The Paris Cafe
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1200
The Performer
Giclee
16" x 11.13"
$500
The Scooter Ride
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1300
The Chinese
Lanterns
Pastel
28" x 19"
$1800
The Thinker
Giclee
12.5" x 16"
$500
The Three Graces
Pastel
16" x 12.25"
$1400
The Tibetan Boy
Giclee
16" x 12.88"
$500
Tibetan Monk
Giclee
16" x 12"
$500
Tibetan Goatherd
Giclee
16" x 12.88"
$500
Vase of sunflowers
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1200
Vulnerable
Giclee
20" x 13.25"
$550
White Teapot
Oil on Canvas
14" x 11"
$950
Wild Sunflowers
Pastel
12" x 9"
$600
Woman with a
Basket of Sunflowers
Pastel
24" x 18"
$1400
Woman in a Green
Dress
Pastel
22" x 13"
$1400
Woman in a Paris
Cafe
Giclee
20" x 16"
$550
Woman Reading
Giclee
20" x 11"
$500
Woman with a
Chinese Vase
Giclee
16" x 13 3/8"
$500
Woman at a Bus Stop
Giclee
16" x 12"
$475
Tang Horsewoman
Pastel
18" x 12"
$1100
PLEASE NOTE:  If the painting is listed as a giclee it means
that the original has been sold.  The prices and sizes listed
for these works are examples, but giclees are available in a
range of sizes and prices.  Contact us for more info.
   A lifelong artist and a Cleveland, Ohio native I moved to San Francisco in 1978 and
now reside in Oakland California. As a teenager I studied art with Bob Mazur and Fred
Biehle in the South Euclid/Lyndhurst schools and took Saturday classes at the Cleveland
Institute of Art. At Ohio State University where my major professors were Hoyt Sherman
and Robert King, I graduated with a degree in Painting. Drawing and Graphics and Art
Education.
   In my painting it is the inner world that inspires me, the psychological, the
contemplative, the spiritual. I love to paint people of all races and the San Francisco Bay
Area with its rich ethnic mix of people has been deeply inspiring to me for that reason. I
am constantly being moved to paint the people here. I believe we are all one in the
important ways, and I love to find those everyday moments that have a universal quality,
something we all recognize and resonate with. Frequently as I do my daily activities I will
encounter faces that fascinate me. I'm always noting the way the light falls on the head of
the person I am talking to, even as I'm shopping at the hardware store or paying for my
lunch.
   I'm on the lookout for a face, an expression or gesture that reaches beyond the
mundane and somehow seems to embody some universal human experience or truth, in
all its poignance and beauty. Its when I can evoke this kind of experience in my painting
that I feel most satisfied as an artist.
   I have been exhibiting my work since the mid-1970s. I work in oil, pastel and watercolor
and these paintings have garnered national recognition, including articles in AMERICAN
ARTIST, INTERNATIONAL ARTIST, PASTEL HIGHLIGHTS 2, and ART BUSINESS NEWS. I
am one of 10 winners (out of 3300 submissions) in the ARTIST'S MAGAZINE Art over 60
Competition, and an article about me appeared in the March 2011 issue of the magazine.
My biography has been included in Marquis’ WHO’S WHO
IN AMERICA, WHO’S WHO IN THE WEST, and the British INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY
OF BIOGRAPHY.                        
    I’m a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Society of the
West Coast and the Sierra Pastel Society among others, and have won many awards in
national and international level competitions in museums and galleries across the country.
My work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions, both group and solo shows
and I have participated in the prestigious Sausalito Art Festival.
    I am a two time winner of the Alameda County Art Commission Public Art Competition
to acquire art for public buildings in Alameda County. Two of my paintings were
purchased for the Alameda County Court House in Hayward, CA., one for the Alameda
County Clerk-Recorder’s Office in Oakland, CA. and one for the new Behavioral Care
Services Building in Hayward, CA.
    When I began selling paintings I came to realize the role they played in my collector’s
everyday lives. It is a very intimate thing to choose a painting which will be in your home
everyday. It is akin to falling in love. I often hear from collectors who tell me that they drink
their coffee every morning in front of “Sunday Morning” (a painting of a woman drinking
coffee and reading an art book) or that they look at my paintings when they are feeling
down for inspiration about how beautiful life can be or that they are always finding new
things in the painting. Frequently they send photos of how the piece looks hanging in their
house. It feels very good to think that my work enhances people’s homes and enriches
their experience of life.
    I take selected painting students in my Oakland studio and serve as a mentor to many
artists around the country and world. I have a large internet presence and, since I paint
people from many different ethnic groups, I frequently get e-mails from artists in the
countries I depict. I always try to give advice, support, education and encouragement to
artists from countries as diverse as Africa, Peru, England, Russia, Australia and of
course, the U.S. It is very gratifying to know that I am passing on the fine art training I
received and experience I’ve garnered to the next generation of artists.