PERSONAL STATEMENT
In 1996, I decided to follow a dream and enrolled as a student in the certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art (PAFA). For the previous 15 years, I had worked in private school education. First at the Springside School in Chestnut Hill and then at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr.
In 2002, I left PAFA and moved to Maine. There, I traveled, worked in a small gourmet market, and painted from my own studio.Life in Maine expanded in 2004 to include winters in Provence, France, where I moved full- time in 2006. Again, I was fortunate enough to have a studio and continued to draw and paint.
In the autumn of 2014, I returned to Philadelphia, where I now live and work.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My work focuses on forms and patterns , primarily in nature. I start with the question of how to convey in two dimensions, through drawing or painting, what has spoken to me in life. Each piece begins with the excitement of a puzzle to be solved and as an invitation to discovery. Each piece is a combination of representation, abstraction, and serendipity.
Charlotte Ferree Humenuk sells privately from her studio in Philadelphia.
Her work is in private collections in California, Chicago, Maine, Massachusetts, New York City, Pennsylvania, and France.
Eyes Drawing Installation at Frieda’s For Generations