Artist Bio
Fawn Bailey is a mixed media artist in the Bay Area, working from Studio 101 in Sausalito’s historic Industrial Center Building (ICB/ART). Her art has been featured in New Visionary Magazine and in shows coast to coast, as well as internationally sold. Her work explores both the real and imagined, often blurring the lines between the actual and the abstract. Her use of line, color, and texture reveal an earthy expressionism that invite the viewer to linger in the places she creates.
A common thread throughout her work is the use of shapes derived from the natural world, including fungi, lichens, plants, and geological formations, inspired by her youth in the NY Catskills and her studies in the sciences. Her use of multiple media and varying techniques including monoprinting, collage, layering, and unique mark-making in her art imbue a feeling of sensual depth and a visually tactile experience that draw the viewer in for a closer look.
Fawn lives in Marin County, California with her husband, two sons, and rescue pets.
Artist Statement
My work explores landscapes both real and imagined, inviting viewers into spaces where memory, mystery, and place converge. As a child, I spent countless hours searching for fossils in the old rock walls that lined our farm, uncovering hidden histories just beneath the surface. That sense of discovery continues to shape my art, where each layer, line, and texture is a hint at something beyond the visible.
Painting abstractly allows me to embody the landscapes that inspire me and create new terrains that hold personal recollections. Similarly to how forces layer and shape earth’s landscapes, I use processes such as mark-making, collage, glazing, and scraping to change the surface of each piece. The tactile intensity of mixed media—tearing paper, mixing colors, and building up or removing textures—offers a freedom from the precision that was so familiar in my previous callings in science and editing, allowing me to transform each canvas into a landscape that evokes feelings of adventure and discovery.
These abstracted environments reflect the geological rhythms of mountains, coastlines, and the quiet resilience of natural forms. They are tactile and visual memories of histories and secrets that lie beyond sight, embedded within each layer. Through my work, I hope to spark curiosity and a shared sense of connection to landscapes both familiar and forgotten, inspiring observers to find their own stories within each piece.
SHOWS, EVENTS + RECOGNITIONS
CURRENT + UPCOMING:
My work is featured in New Visionary Magazine, Issue 11: https://www.visionaryartcollective.com/magazine.
My painting “Sierra Daydream” is on display at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard, 129 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA
My painting “Pacific Meditation” was selected for the ART FLUENT show This Land.
View the show at https://art-fluent.com/gallery/this-land/.
PREVIOUS:
-Solo show at the Mill Valley Depot Café & Bookstore in November. Reception Nov 5, 2024.
-Awarded “Best in Show” as an exhibiting artist at the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, September 14-15, 2024.
-My painting “Follow the Sound” was featured on merchandise at the Sound Summit music festival on Mt. Tamalpais, Sept. ‘24.
-Solo show at Tiburon Town Hall July & August, 2024, invited by the Tiburon Heritage & Arts Commission.
-Solo show at Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce, and First Tuesday Art Walk, March 2024
-Served as Secretary of the ICB Artists Association Board 2022-24
-Marin Open Studios 2022, 2023, 2024, including group shows at Sausalito Center for the Arts
-O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Members Show, December 2023
-Invited to participate in inaugural Sausalito Print Marketplace at the SCA, December 2023
-Toast to Sausalito, Caledonia Street, Sausalito, October 2023
-“Call and Response: Art and Poetry” juried show at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, July 26-August 24, 2023
-Booth at Mill Valley Music Festival, May 2023
-”Spotlight Sausalito”, featuring Sausalito artists leading today’s creative expression, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Feb-March 2023
-ICB Winter Open Studios 2021, 2022, 2023
-ICB Artists at Work 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
-Solo Show in the ICB Third Floor Lounge, October 2022
-Atlantic Gallery Invitational Group Exhibit, Connections VI, Chelsea, NYC, 2022
-Group Exhibit, “Golden State”, Bay Model, Sausalito, CA May 23-July 11, 2022
-Art for Ukraine benefit art sale for humanitarian aide, Sausalito Center for the Arts, May 2022
-ICB ART at The Cove group show, Tiburon, CA, summer 2022
-ICB Winter Open Studios Preview Show, Bay Model, Sausalito, November 2022
