Ellen & Bill Leibow A Creative Partnership

This husband and wife team are both talented artists using different mediums. Bill is a large format photographer, working in black and white. Ellen is a painter, using bright colorful, impressionistic strokes. Together they create beautiful images that provide a window to their vision of the world.

Their marriage is the story of two creative spirits who have merged their love of art with their love for each other. From their Camelback Canyon Studios they create their art. The darkroom and the studio are nestled at the foot of Camelback Mountain in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. They are passionate about the entire creative process from visualizing to framing the final work. They have traveled throughout the world together. They actively participate in the production of each others art. They provide both critique and encouragement. Art has become the corner stone of their life together.

Ellen's paintings reflect her delight in color. Ellen has a life, long, love for art. She has been painting and drawing for as long as she can remember,but only seriously studying painting since her marriage to Bill. She has explored various mediums from watercolor, pastel, acrylic and she feels she has found her voice through oils. Her current passion is to express the moment through painting in the Plein Air tradition. Her work reflects the light, atmosphere, and color of the moment. All of her paintings are distinctive for their bold, bright, color.

Bill expresses himself in subtle shades of black and white. He is a large format photographer who has turned his passion for the camera and nature into beautiful works of art. His images range from landscapes to still life. His photography is still printed by hand, one image at a time. These images demonstrate beauty through soft tones and variety of light and shadow. Throughout his extensive travels Bill has photographed ancient ruins, breathtaking scenery and intimate close-ups of everyday scenes in nature and architecture. A Dentist by profession he brings the same attention to detail and focus demanded in dentistry to his art. The results are truly amazing,sensitively printed, images, that are emotionally moving.

Recently Bill has explored color images in addtion to the black and white photography. The protfolio of vivid color landscapes and botanical studies can be seen in the works section of the web site..

The latest Leibow Family collaboration is an amazing Photographic Book entitled "Oh Hummingbirds!" Bill photographed a hummingbird family. Images include the momma bird sitting on the nest to the babies first flight. Ellen served as art director and editor. She complied the beautiful poetry to these moving images. For more detail see the Books section of the web site.


Bill and Ellen welcome you to their Gallery website. They hope you will enjoy viewing all the collections. They invite you to visit their Studio and Gallery by appointment, at Camelback Canyon Studios 602-840-8441 or contact them through the website email. Commissions are available to your specifications.
Enjoy your experience with Leibow Fine Art!