Galen Felde's work explores empathy, impermanence and our difficult relationship with origins, adaptation and alteration of the landscape. Echoing familiar landforms, her paintings are a complex collage of natural and urban imagery. Tangled branches, leaves, vibrating wings, wire, telephone poles and smoke stacks are just some of the key elements, magnified, distorted, layered and sculpted to form the substructure of her work. Use of trace images, skewed focus and saturated light refer to the construction of memory, the resonance of absence and the process of release. Canvases combine acrylic texturing and under-painting with feathered brushwork and numerous transparent washes on wood panel.

Galen was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada and studied the visual arts in Vancouver, London Eng. and Montreal, Que. She forged her career as an independent artist until 2007, and is now commercially represented in Vancouver and Toronto. Her work can be found in collections throughout Canada, the United States and Europe.