Galen Felde‘s work focuses on human and environmental interdependence and issues of empathy. Tangled branches, leaves, light particles, wings and wire…

-all are key elements magnified, layered, distorted and sculpted to form the substructure of Galen’s paintings in her continuing exploration of impermanence and our awkward relationship with origins, adaptation and alteration of the landscape. Characteristic use of trace images and skewed focus suggest the construction of memory, and the resonance of absence. Canvases combine acrylic texturing and under-painting techniques with numerous transparent washes and dry brush on wood panel.

Galen Felde was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has studied both the visual arts and contemporary dance in Vancouver, BC, Montréal, Que. and London, Eng. She attended Simon Fraser University as a Contemporary Dance Major with a Concentration in the Visual Arts. After choreographing and performing for many years as an independent dancer alongside her visual art studies, she chose to pursue a full-time career as a painter. Exhibiting in numerous solo and group exhibitions, Galen’s work can be found in collections throughout Canada and the US. Her work is fuelled each year by the trek from her studio in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, to the Slocan Valley in the BC Interior.