Stacey Fletcher is a mixed-media artist recognized for her intuitive mark-making and gestural paintings. Using a dynamic combination of acrylics, spray paint, oil sticks, and drawing materials, her work features bold colors, rich textures, and energetic marks that evoke layered references to life experiences. Fletcher describes her process as “layering thoughts, memories, and ideas with sensual materials to motivate the paintings and display the evolution of the mark.”

Fletcher holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a BFA from Valdosta State University, Georgia. Based in Florida, she is a Professor of 2D Studio Arts at Daytona State College and actively exhibits her work both nationally and internationally. Her accolades include an international residency in Chełm, Poland, multiple grants and awards recognizing her artistic contributions, features in Studio Visit Magazine and The Woven Tale Press, and inclusion in public and private collections.

As a cathartic painter, my work captures the transformative power of vulnerability, channeling life’s complexities into dynamic, intuitive creations. I navigate the tension between control and release through a balance of slow, meticulous mark-making and fast, instinctive gestures. This duality allows me to both carefully construct and urgently unravel a visual language that mirrors the way we process lived experience.

Through layered acrylics, spray paint, oil sticks, and drawing materials, I explore the interplay between the seen and unseen, creating surfaces rich in texture, color, and fluidity. My process is rooted in intuitive mark-making, where each layer builds upon memory, observation, and response.

Playful, vibrant color palettes—shaped in part by the light and atmosphere of Florida—often mask or soften underlying tensions, suggesting how brightness and beauty can obscure the quieter worries of everyday life while still shaping our experiences. These works often exist in a state of becoming—intentionally unresolved—revealing the evolution of the mark and inviting the viewer into that process. Influenced by principles of Gestalt, the compositions encourage the audience to complete the visual experience, fostering a collaborative space for interpretation and introspection.

My work reflects an ongoing search for meaning within abstraction, where tangible and intangible forms collide. It is driven by an infatuation with how ideas take shape through material and gesture, resulting in compositions that act as visual translations of personal and collective experience. Ultimately, these paintings embrace the unpredictability of life, advocating for vulnerability, inclusion, family harmony, and the creation of a meaningful legacy.