About Artist

🌿 About

I create from what others overlook — from fragments of metal, layers of resin, pieces of wood, and traces of nature. My art begins in the discarded and ends in renewal. It’s not just a visual language but a dialogue between materials, memory, and spirit.

Living with complex PTSD and functional neurological disorder has shaped both my process and philosophy. Creation, for me, is not separate from recovery — it is recovery. Art became a way to retrain my body, to transform energy once frozen by trauma into movement, color, and form. Through making, I reenter my body, my history, and the world.

I’m influenced by artists who transform perception itself: the precision of da Vinci, the wonder of Michelangelo, the surreal honesty of Dalí, and the transcendent anatomy of Alex Grey. The order of Escher, the impermanence of Goldsworthy, and the raw expressiveness of Basquiat taught me that chaos and logic coexist. I find inspiration in the organic designs of Haeckel, the bold compassion of Sargent, and the moral courage of Banksy and Bordalo II. I carry the spiritual stillness of Colbert, the dreamlike photography of Whaley, the textural depth of Mills, and the narrative simplicity of Silverstein as quiet guides.

I often let the materials decide what they wish to become. Sometimes the work emerges from destruction — rust, breakage, loss. Other times from stillness — a found object, a moment of silence, a gesture of forgiveness. My process is never linear; it’s cyclical, like nature’s way of regenerating itself.

Many of my earlier pieces no longer exist. They were dismantled, painted over, or returned to the earth. I’ve learned to see that impermanence as sacred — as proof that art, like life, does not need to last forever to have meaning.

What drives me is not the finished object, but the process of transformation — the moment when material, body, and spirit find equilibrium. My work invites others to slow down, feel deeply, and rediscover beauty in what’s been weathered. Because sometimes, what appears broken is only in the process of becoming whole.

Artist Statement

🎨 Artist Statement

My art is a journey from raw matter to living meaning — a transformation of silence into voice and the unseen into form. I work across sculpture, mixed media, murals, graffiti, resin, upcycled scrap metal, and land art, using materials that carry history: corroded steel, shattered glass, fragments of wood, traces of nature. I see beauty not in perfection, but in what has survived — what still vibrates with the memory of use, time, and transformation.

I am deeply inspired by visionaries who explore perception and impermanence in their own language: M.C. Escher’s impossible geometries, Andy Goldsworthy’s ephemeral earthworks, Basquiat’s unfiltered truth, Alex Grey’s spiritual anatomy, and Gillie and Marc Schattner’s joyful animal-human storytelling. From Dalí, I borrow dream logic; from da Vinci and Michelangelo, reverence for anatomy and the divine potential of human form; from Ernst Haeckel, the organic precision of natural symmetry.

The shadow and light of Rembrandt, the fine detail of Dürer, and the chaos of Hieronymus Bosch all echo in my compositions. The compassion of John Singer Sargent, the mysticism of Gregory Colbert, the layered textures of Russell Mills, and the poetic stillness of Jo Whaley help me navigate the threshold between realism and abstraction. Bordalo II’s activism, Banksy’s defiance, and Shel Silverstein’s simplicity remind me that art must also speak — to conscience, to empathy, and to wonder.

My process is tactile and instinctive. I move between construction and destruction — welding, layering, breaking apart, and rebuilding — until the materials begin to tell me their story. Each work becomes an emotional landscape, born from both chaos and contemplation. I aim not for control but for collaboration with matter, letting decay, light, and gravity become co-creators.

Ultimately, my work seeks to embody resilience — to reveal how life renews itself through the very act of falling apart. Every mark, scar, and imperfection is part of a larger conversation about impermanence, survival, and the sacredness of transformation.

Artist Biography

✨ Artist Biography

Celine Soucy is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges sculpture, painting, land art, and assemblage. She creates with salvaged metal, resin, paint, and natural elements, exploring the interconnectedness between destruction and renewal. Her art inhabits the liminal space between realism and abstraction, where memory, body, and nature converge in transformation.

Soucy draws inspiration from a wide range of artists who navigate illusion, impermanence, and humanity’s dialogue with the natural and spiritual world. Her influences include M.C. Escher, Andy Goldsworthy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alex Grey, Salvador Dalí, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Ernst Haeckel, Rembrandt, Albrecht Dürer, Banksy, Hieronymus Bosch, John Singer Sargent, Gregory Colbert, Russell Mills, Jo Whaley, Bordalo II, Gillie and Marc Schattner, and Shel Silverstein. Each influence resonates differently in her work — from Escher’s logic to Basquiat’s intuition, from Goldsworthy’s impermanence to da Vinci’s timeless inquiry.

Her artistic journey is inseparable from her lived experience. Living with complex PTSD and functional neurological disorder, Soucy learned to use art as both language and medicine. Each gesture in her studio retrains the body and restores connection between physical, emotional, and spiritual systems. Her process transforms paralysis into motion and fragmentation into coherence.

Many of her early works no longer exist — lost to fire, repurposing, or decay — yet their disappearance shaped her philosophy of creation as cyclical rather than permanent. This impermanence underpins her environmental ethos: that renewal requires release, and that the act of making is inseparable from letting go.

Soucy has also taught art in diverse settings — from children and elders to individuals with cerebral palsy and autism — believing that creativity is not a privilege but a human instinct. Her teaching mirrors her art: intuitive, inclusive, and rooted in empathy.

Her studio practice continues to expand across media, from kinetic installations to site-specific works that merge natural and industrial forms. Each piece invites the viewer into an encounter with impermanence — to look again at what is broken and find within it the quiet pulse of becoming.