Celia Vitae and Artist Statement


Celia’s work expresses her joyful affinity with nature. Her friends know her as a wild, wise woman with a warm and generous heart who lives life by her own terms. Her sense of magic and beauty emanate through her life and through her paintings, sculptures and photographs.		VIEW PORTFOLIOS GALLERIES CONTACT LINKS
			Adventurous Forging forward Loving history Laden with Prayers of Life Unglazed in Tradition and Burnished with Merriment
	Celia Cade Solo Exhibitions 1990 High Point Theater Art Gallery, High Point, NC 1986 Old City Hall, Gainesville, FL Two Woman Exhibitions 1995 Art in Public Places, City Hall, Gainesville, FL (Celia’s work along with her Grandmother’s historical documentation of San Antonia, Texas) 1989 Santa Fe Community College Gallery, Gainesville, FL Group Exhibitions 2001 Kenny Goodman Galleries, Ocean Beach, NY 2001 Take Me Places Coffee Shop, Melrose, FL 2000 Ocean Beach Art Festival, Ocean Beach, NY 1999 Melrose Bay Art Gallery, Melrose, FL 1996, 1994 Barbados (works shown at a series of diplomatic functions, including at the US Ambassador’s residence works now in private collections in Washington, D.C.) 1995 R Gallery, Gainesville, FL 1984 Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) Gallery Collections Lawton Chiles State Office Building, Miami, FL Florida School of Traditional Midwifery, Gainesville, FL SFCC purchase award, Painting, on permanent display in President’s office SFCC purchase award, Ceramics, on permanent display in Board Room numerous private collections

			Celia paints out of her home in Melrose, Florida, overlooking old oaks and a small lake. Dogs and four children keep her company in a small wood house filled with canvasses, paints, frames, toys, photographs, and fascinating objects of all descriptions: bones, stones, and curios; dried flowers, and albums of scribbles and sketches. In the barn are pottery wheel, clays, glazes and kilns for her ceramic work. Born in Texas, she has lived most of her life in rural North Florida. Her independent spirit and love of nature are evident in her treatment of trees, flowers and landscapes. Photographic nudes and biomorphic interpretations of human anatomy are bold, but intimate, sometimes moving into abstraction. Travelling extensively, Celia fills her canvasses and camera lenses with the light and forms of the American Southwest, Germany, Barbados, the Virgin Islands, and the New Jersey wetlands. She has spent the last two summers painting on Fire Island, New York. Her next artistic adventure will be a bicycle trek over the Rocky Mountains to sketch high altitude flowers.