WELCOME to Ellenshaw.com, the official website for artwork by Peter Ellenshaw and Harrison Ellenshaw. Established and operated by the Ellenshaw family, this site offers high-quality giclées and serigraphs of paintings by both Peter Ellenshaw, and his son Harrison.
Peter Ellenshaw, whose artistic career spanned more than seven decades, was considered the premier seascape and landscape artist of his generation. He worked with many acclaimed filmmakers including Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Powell and W. Percy Day. He was an Academy Award® winning special effects artist, a motion picture production designer, a concept illustrator and an official 'Disney Legend.'
Harrison Ellenshaw joined Walt Disney Studios as a matte artist, moonlighted to render a number of paintings for Star Wars, and then oversaw the matte department on The Empire Strikes Back at George Lucas' premier effects facility Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). Later, upon his return to Disney in 1989 for Dick Tracy, Harrison headed Disney Studios' own highly regarded effects facility: Buena Vista Visual Effects (BVVE). He has been nominated for an Academy Award® along with his father, Peter Ellenshaw, for special visual effects work on The Black Hole.
Site Updated: 07.06.10