Chelsea Beaudrie is a self taught abstract artist born and raised in Ontario Canada and currently living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work speaks through the use of layered color, expressive lines, shapes and textures that create a story of her perception of the world that surrounds her.
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Artist Statement:
I had spent most of my life with a feeling of “holding back” – staying confined within the lines and worrying about making the right “mark” in the world that surrounds me.
I found great solace in the discovery of music at a young age, spending every possible moment experiencing the Detroit/Windsor music scene. Yet, it was my discovery of painting when I let all of those preconceived notions go free. Each painting is my deep-rooted, unfiltered voice on my medium. Each brush stroke, mark and movement of the paint with my fingers across a canvas is expressing a feeling, an experience, speaking an untold story. These stories work in providing the viewer varying dimensions for individual interpretation. My use of texture and color is my expression of passion, anger, joy, confusion. Some of the many emotions us humans often experience, but struggle to adequately express.
I’m intrigued and inspired by human behavior. My work is often influenced by social injustices, witnessed interactions within our global cultural environment and personal experiences.
Way to go Chelsea this is an excellent way to acknowledge your beautiful work! Very proud of you!
What a wonderful self expressive artist, who shows her life and experiences on the canvas, it is very interesting how each painting you can find objects and characters and feeling with every stroke. When you view each painting, you look very intensely at every inch of the canvas and find so many interesting things that each individual eye will perceive differently. An amazing artist