Stacy Caldwell lives, works, and paints in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the fields, hills, rivers, and streams play an important role in her oil painting, charcoal drawings, and gouache sketches.

The journey into painting began in earnest while working at a local university where she spent evenings and weekends studying painting, drawing, and art history.

In 2018 a three-week residency in an historic dune shack on Cape Cod in Massachusetts became an especially transformative experience. The isolation of the pandemic, correlating with the mentorship of E.M. Saniga, has also been an important influence.

In 2021, inspired by the journal drawings of François Dupuis, Stacy committed to her own daily practice using charcoal in a Moleskine journal and drawing from surprise encounters, memories, and the fleeting images of daily life. These drawings continue today and have become an important part of her practice.

Statement:
My paintings are a quiet response to the landscapes of my surroundings. They are an attempt to give attention to the mysterious beauty that reveals itself unexpectedly in familiar places.

Time alone in nature has been crucial to my experience of painting and drawing. For many years while working full-time in an office, I stole moments to go outside to paint or draw.

In 2021 I began working daily in sketchbooks with gouache and charcoal to move beyond direct response to my surroundings and explore what can evolve out of memory, imagination, design, and invention.

Recently I’ve begun to approach oil painting in the same way as the sketchbook work, which is to begin with an event, experience, or image and allow the painting to evolve.

Background:
Stacy Caldwell lives, works, and paints in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the fields, hills, rivers, and streams play an important role in her oil painting, charcoal drawings, and gouache sketches.

The journey into painting began in earnest while working at a local university where she spent evenings and weekends studying painting, drawing, and art history.

In 2018 a three-week residency in an historic dune shack on Cape Cod in Massachusetts became an especially transformative experience. The isolation of the pandemic, correlating with the mentorship of E.M. Saniga, has also been an important influence.

In 2021, inspired by the journal drawings of François Dupuis, Stacy committed to her own daily practice using charcoal in a Moleskine journal and drawing from surprise encounters, memories, and the fleeting images of daily life. These drawings continue today and have become an important part of her practice.

Statement:
My paintings are a quiet response to the landscapes of my surroundings. They are an attempt to give attention to the mysterious beauty that reveals itself unexpectedly in familiar places.

Time alone in nature has been crucial to my experience of painting and drawing. For many years while working full-time in an office, I stole moments to go outside to paint or draw.

In 2021 I began working daily in sketchbooks with gouache and charcoal to move beyond direct response to my surroundings and explore what can evolve out of memory, imagination, design, and invention.

Recently I’ve begun to approach oil painting in the same way as the sketchbook work, which is to begin with an event, experience, or image and allow the painting to evolve.