About Elaine Fraticelli

Artist Statement

My work is a mixture of connections joining logic and emotions, reconstructing adversity in engaging and unfamiliar ways. Using different styles of art to push the boundaries of visual understanding, I illustrate the connection between the infinite expanse of nature and all the complexities of humanity. The resulting images are beautiful, evocative, unsettling, and cathartic all at once.

Biography

I’m an artist, naturalist, and spiritualist who wanted to be an artist when I grew up, so that’s what I became. From California, to Connecticut, to Montana where I got my BFA from UMT, it’s become a part of me and my existence in the world. I developed my skill through school and began my professional art practice in 2022. Based in Missoula Montana, I love to take time and absorb the earth and culture around me before playing with representational shapes, colors, and spaces on a surface. After several major life altering events I’ve begun visually expressing the lessons I had learned about life, love, and loss and have found myself on a creative and spiritual journey towards healing and peace.

My grandma Judy, a self taught artist and determined creative, was the one who showed me the beauty and art in all things. Because of her, I am who I am today.

“Art is a wound turned into light.”
~ Georges Braque