CHARLENE NIELD

About the Artist

Charlene Nield’s paintings come from what she calls “the space between,” a place that exists between the seemingly ever-increasing stress of life as we live it and the high drama of the world as we know it. It is a place where you can still find light and whimsy, bright colors and patterns of joy. Painted layer upon layer and embedded with bits of collage, her figurative work is a celebration of everyday moments – a woman deep in thought or sitting with her dog, or a man with a bouquet of flowers. She relies on heavy underpainting to build the history and then scratch through to bring that past to the surface or paint a background with bits of the history left open to the present. Left faceless, and at times without clarity of gender, race or ethnicity, her figures are meant to excite the imagination and spark an internal dialogue by inviting the viewer to become part of the process and paint in their mind the final strokes.

Charlene Nield joined the art world as a painter around 10 years ago and quickly gained acceptance and accolades, with works juried into shows throughout the United States and found in collections in the states and abroad. She was juried into the Torpedo Factory Artists Association (TFAA) in 2017. Her work is shown at Foundry Gallery in Washington, DC and in Alexandria at the Art League’s Gallery 75, TFAA’s Gallery 311, and at Mosaic Gallery in Fairfax, VA. Work can also be seen in Studio 308 at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, as well as on her website charlenenield.com and on Instagram at @charlenenield