Stacey Fletcher is known for her intuitive mark making and gestural mixed media paintings. Her process involves layering a range of materials, including acrylics, spray paint, oil sticks, and dry drawing materials, to build up a surface with energetic marks, bold colors, and rich textures that serve as an abstracted visual reference to a range of life experiences. Fletcher elaborates, “my work is a process of layering thoughts, memories, and ideas with sensual materials which motivate the paintings and displays the evolution of the mark."

Fletcher earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA. Fletcher currently lives with her family in Florida, maintains an active studio practice, and is an Associate Professor of 2D Studio Arts at Daytona State College. She has exhibited in many group, juried, and solo exhibitions, in the United States and abroad, including an International Painting Residency in Chelm Poland. Her work is now part of public and private art collections, as well as been given many awards, including being published twice in a juried selection of International Visual Artists in Studio Visit Magazine and The Woven Tale Press, a literary & fine art magazine.

As a cathartic painter, I embrace the challenges presented in life into my art. I am slowly learning the lessons in vulnerability and the need to challenge myself as a creator. Concepts of vulnerability are what fuel my passion to create.

My work seeks to display a language based on the process of intuitive mark making. This language creates a surface struggling between what we do not see and that which is seen directly. It involves layering various materials, including acrylics, spray paint, oil sticks, and dry drawing materials with energetic marks, bold colors, and rich textures that serve as an abstract visual reference to a range of life experiences. My infatuation with abstract and tangible spaces is what drives my work; it motivates each of my ideas, creating forms that become an abstraction of those ideas. The state of these fluid works is actively "unfinished,” thus exposing the visual process to its audience creating a sense of contemplation for their own ideas, experiences, struggles, and triumphs.

Layering thoughts, memories, and ideas with sensual materials, motivates the paintings and displays the evolution of the mark. Life is a spectrum of different experiences and unpredictability and I will embrace all the above.

Recently participating in a Master Course in Wood Block Printmaking, led by Lyell Castonguay, co-founder of BIG INK LLC, marked a significant undertaking and reinvention for me. This immersive experience has instilled in me a deep admiration for the art of printmaking and the inherent difficulties is poses. It served as a valuable departure from the comfort of my usual painting routine, offering a welcomed challenge in embracing vulnerability. Reflecting on my own experience, the epiphany of this process’s magic lies in the journey of continuous learning from one experience to the next, embracing our mistakes as valuable lessons.