{"title":"Peter Ellenshaw","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Ellenshaw, whose artistic career spans more than six decades, is a renowned landscape artist, motion picture art director, Academy Award. Ellenshaw was born in Great Britain in 1913. A neighbor, Walter Percy Day, O.B.E., a famous matte artist of his time, discovered Ellenshaw’s talent and took him on as an assistant. For context, mattes are realistic paintings done on glass, against which films of actors and other parts of the set are projected; then, both painting and film are re-photographed to create a new, realistic image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1947, his work caught the attention of an art director for the Walt Disney Studios. Disney was in the pre-planning stages of his very first live-action film, Treasure Island, which would be produced in Great Britain, and the art director inquired if Ellenshaw would be interested in the project. Thus began a professional collaboration and friendship with Walt Disney that would span over 30 years and 34 films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEllenshaw regarded Walt Disney as a source of inspiration, a wonderful executive, and over the years, a good friend. “Walt had the ability to communicate with artists,” recalls Ellenshaw. “He’d talk to you on your level – artist to artist. He used to say; I can’t draw, Peter. But he had the soul of an artist, and he had a wonderful way of transferring his enthusiasm to you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1953 the Ellenshaws moved from Great Britain to the United States, where Peter began working full-time for the Walt Disney Studios. Ellenshaw maintained his identity as a traditional landscape artist during his Disney years and always found time evenings and weekends to work on his canvases. One of Ellenshaw’s first Disney projects upon his arrival at the Studio was to create a conceptual rendering of something called “Disneyland.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEllenshaw went to work painting an aerial view of the proposed park on a 4′ x 8′ piece of fiberboard. The painting was then used by Walt Disney to introduce television audiences to his new project, while simultaneously using the painting to attract backers on this exciting new concept in outdoor entertainment. In 1964 Ellenshaw won the Best Special Visual Effects Academy Award. During his amazing film career, Ellenshaw has been nominated for four Academy Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1993, Ellenshaw was officially designated a “Disney Legend” by The Walt Disney Company during a ceremony at The Walt Disney Studios officiated by Michael D. Eisner and Roy E. 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Now, Ellenshaw turns his skill and imagination to the most romantic of all Disney settings, the enchanted castles. From a starry night where Cinderella's dreams come true to a daring race to save Princess Aurora, Ellenshaw perfectly captures the grandeur of these two unforgettable moments in his own distinctive style.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"\u003eLimited edition giclée on canvas.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions:  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"\u003e24\" x 36\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-clearfix\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Laguna Vista Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51063711531320,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/5527\/5320\/files\/ellenshwa-auroras-rescue.jpg?v=1756781989"}],"url":"https:\/\/lagunavistagallery.com\/collections\/peter-ellenshaw.oembed","provider":"Laguna Vista Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}