Featured Artist Cecelia Feld

Artist Cecelia Feld combines paint, printmaking and collage to create delightful mixed media abstracts. Visit her website to see more of her work.

 

 

Art can’t save the world. Art can’t right all wrongs. It might make the world a better place by illuminating, provoking, persuading and inspiring. I hope my art does some of these things.

 

 

I interpret the world around me through abstraction in painting, printmaking and collage. Layers, layers, and more layers explore a world of possibilities and meanings, especially in my collages. So much is unexpected as I decide on how to use line, color, shape, and texture. Adding this, eliminating that—it’s an ongoing process.  One thing leads to another, which often means I make a group of related works, a series.

 

 

Collages need a starting point on which to build. In my work I often make monotype or collagraph prints with my etching press. These prints serve two purposes. They are the background to which the other elements are added, or they are cut into shapes and added to the background along with my photographs, sun prints and found paper (ephemera). An acrylic painting on paper may be the background. I also build collages on the monotype “ghost” image which changes the feeling of the collage.

 

 

Individual colors and shapes take on new meaning when combined with other similar or dissimilar colors and shapes. The whole becomes greater than its parts. The relationships establish a flow.

 

 

Creating marbled paper with the Japanese suminagashi technique is another of my favorite ways to make background paper or cut shapes. Suminagashi marbling is wild and unpredictable, which I love.

 

 

Words and letters have often played a part in my work. The Haiku series incorporates friends’ original Haiku poems. The Fortune Cookie series features uplifting fortune cookie sayings as a collage element.

 

 

I often wonder what people bring to their encounter with my work. What are they thinking, what are they feeling? I hope they ask questions not only about the how but about the why.

 

 

My studios in Dallas and at my farm in north Texas are the calm amidst the storm outside. Every day is a new day. The possibilities are endless.

 

 

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