i am chel [[they/them]]

i love the ocean. i am obsessive about details and love to lie on the floor listening to music.

if you’d like a more official artist’s statement, here’s this:

Chel is an artist living and working in Portland, Maine. Fueled by the desire to connect with and convey an ever-shifting sense of self, their practice leans into impermanence. Through meditatively allowing all intuitively felt colors, marks, and shapes to be made, and then responding and editing, they seek to find resolution visually and within a feeling. They use paint and other mediums to create tenuously balanced compositions that are deeply layered and fully activated, each piece a filter through which loneliness, grief, and the anxious dream of living pass.