EC Bell is an American expressionist painter and gallery owner from Charleston, South Carolina.In his career, he has completed work that ranges from abstract to representational and celebrates every facet of the female body. Bell's favorite subject is the female body and land around his former home of Charleston, South Carolina, and those near his current home in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

Much of his work includes identifiable landscapes to which he has returned repeatedly over a period of decades. He typically begins a painting with a sketch on canvas in pencil followed by a loose brushed wash before executing a finished painting with acrylic paint in washes, drybrush and numerous layers of color.

He lives and works in the art mecca of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.