Ellen Glasgow is a nationally recognized landscape painter who grew up in Paducah, Kentucky. Her paintings are celebrated for their lively colors, unusual viewpoints and unique contemporary style. Glasgow traveled extensively and lived in many other places before settling in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1980. Glasgow attended Murray State where she majored in art and met her husband Jim Glasgow. Jim was in the Coast Guard which took them to Staten Island, New York, Biloxi, Mississippi, Annette Island, Alaska and St Petersburg, Florida. This was the beginning of her travels that have provided her with an extensive and diverse experience with landscapes which she expresses so well in her paintings.