Artist Bio
Fawn Bailey is a mixed media artist in the Bay Area, working from Studio 101 in Sausalito’s historic Industrial Center Building (ICB). Her art has been featured in shows coast to coast, and internationally sold. Her work is ever-evolving as her bold, saturated abstracts transition to earthy expressionism while using lines and pattern to convey the natural boldness that earth bestows.
A common thread throughout her work is the use of shapes derived from the natural world, including fungi, lichens, plants, and geological formations, inspired by her youth in the NY Catskills and her studies in the sciences. Her use of multiple media and varying techniques including monoprinting, collage, layering, and unique mark-making in her art imbue a feeling of sensual depth and a visually tactile experience that draw the viewer in for a closer look.
Fawn currently resides in Marin County, California with her husband, two sons, and rescue pets. Her work can be viewed during open studios, or by appointment at her Sausalito studio.
Artist Statement
Creating art isn’t just a desire for me, it is a calling from within – a way to have a voice and express myself without the need for words.
Painting abstractly feels like rebelling against the perfectionism that consumed me during years of studying science and working as an editor. The freedom of creating new shapes, tearing paper, mixing colors, scraping, sanding, and painting over again makes me feel alive and present. The process is scientific, a constant flow of experimental risks, and subtle adjustments, yet the results are often better the more I stray from a set formula.
When I am regularly creating art, I find myself looking at my environment in a new light, noticing details, shapes, and colors with the lingering curiosity that I had as a child. I hope that my art might spark curiosity in you as well, and even bring an awareness of something within yourself that you don’t want to be silent or forgotten, the way it has awoken something in me.
