About The Artist
Creating art 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 and yet playful, a constant flow of experimental risks, expressive marks, and subtle adjustments.
When I am creating art, I find myself looking at my environment in a new light, noticing details, shapes, and colors with a familiar curiosity. 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.
Fawn Bailey is a mixed media artist in the Bay Area, working from Studio 101 in Sausalito’s historic Industrial Center Building (ICB/ART). Her art has been featured in New Visionary Magazine and in shows coast to coast, as well as internationally sold. Her work explores both the real and imagined, often blurring the lines between the actual and the abstract. Her use of line, color, and texture reveal an earthy expressionism that invite the viewer to linger in the places she creates.
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.
Follow her on Instagram @fawnbaileyart to see her process and latest work.
Studio Information
ICB
101
Studio 101 is on the 1st floor of the ICB, just inside the Harbor Drive entrance.
Contact Information
Exhibitions & Press
Current:
- Fawn’s work is featured in New Visionary Magazine, Issue 11: https://www.visionaryartcollective.com/magazine.
- Fawn’s painting “Sierra Daydream” is on display at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard, 129 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA
- Her piece, “After the Show” is featured in the members show at the Marin MOCA through December 21.
- Fawn’s painting “Pacific Meditation” was selected for the ART FLUENT show This Land. View the show at https://art-fluent.com/gallery/this-land/.
Upcoming:
- Fawn’s work will be featured during Mill Valley’s First Tuesday Art Walk on November 5 and shown a the Mill Valley Depot Café through the end of November.
- Fawn’s studio will be open for the ICB Winter Open Studios, December 7-8, 2024. Studio 101 at ICB/ART 480 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, CA.
“Best in Show” – Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival 2024
New Visionary Magazine, Issue 11.
