“Small World #3” Size:8”x8”

“Small World #3” Size:8”x8”Ms. Sillens work features landscape inspired torn paper arrangements. It explores themes of abstraction, space, light, color, texture, and improvisation. She gathers paper from discarded mail, books, and magazines. Her process begins with painting the papers and then exploring color through cutting and manipulation, evolving through intuition and experimentation. I have always sought wonders in everyday life and nature; remaining open, accepting, and

Christie Scheele has been painting devotedly since receiving her BFA from the College of Art and Design at Alfred University

and for the Artists Association of Nantucket

oil on primed paper and natural found objects on site in Northern Ireland

It is there that she discovered her love for the horizon

Vanilla Made in the USA

and rockrose with a woody-sage understory to create the exhilarating aroma of an enchanted winter forest blanketed in freshly fallen snow

clean greens bursting from a row of vibrant tulips in the garden

Classic cashmere gloves with retro stitched design

but still there telling its story was the barn and silo

and the Mayo Clinic

Shelters for our minds as well as all the life they hold and produce

reaching the viewer’s heart without sentimentality or melodrama