Felicia Charles

Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1979, Felicia has developed parallel careers as a self-taught artist, youth worker, and freelance designer. She began her interior design business in 1999 working on a variety of domestic and commercial projects, and soon started to receive an increased interest in her artwork, with many clients commissioning pieces and recommending her services as an artist.

Felicia spent most of her formative years outdoors, and these associations with nature, colour, texture and light have left an indelible impression.
Combining her artistic practice, love for nature and skills working with young people, Felicia has volunteered at The Donkey Sanctuary in Aruba in 2013 and for a charity working with the homeless and vulnerable children in Hawaii in 2011.

This year she is doing some work for Candlelighters children’s’ cancer charity in Leeds.

Felicia exhibits regularly, with a number of galleries stocking limited edition prints of her work.

Felicia on Human Nature

Growing up and now living in a semi-rural location, with the city just an arms-length away, my new body of work tries to communicate that crossover and possible state of limbo, where nature is forced to adapt and it is survival of the fittest in the ever expanding urbanisation of the land. It’s in this state of limbo where I’ve imagined a whole dark underworld of our furry and feathered friends. These animals come to life, with stories of their own injecting a little dark humour. As the collection grows you can get to know the characters and follow some of their shady shenanigans.

90% of my ideas come whilst I am out walking my dog and checking up on my
“adopted” family of ponies. Getting to know their individual personalities, then creating different characters as I encounter them, from mischievous magpies to mafia blue-tits.

These paintings and collage are very labour intensive for me, however, each character as they develop really becomes part of the family.

 

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