Galen Felde

Echoing familiar landforms, Galen Felde’s work is a complex, often disguised integration of natural and urban elements, addressing issues of empathy, impermanence and our complicated relationship with origins, adaptation and alteration of the landscape.  Her paintings combine acrylic texturing and under-painting with feathered brushwork and numerous transparent washes on wood panel. Her multi-media work integrates film, construction, painting and photography.

Galen was born in Vancouver BC, and studied the visual arts and contemporary dance in Vancouver, London Eng. and Montreal, Que. The division of her time between the raw but vulnerable nature of the BC Interior and the geometry, chaos and mutability of urban settings has been instrumental in informing her artistic vocabulary.  She has been a full-time practicing artist for over 3 decades with yearly exhibits, an extensive body of work and representation locally, in London and Toronto, Ont. Her work is collected internationally.