Galen Felde was born in Vancouver, BC. She has studied both the
visual arts and contemporary dance locally, in London, Eng. and
Montréal, Que. She attended Simon Fraser University as a
contemporary dance major with a concentration in the visual arts.

After choreographing and performing for many years as an
independent dancer alongside her visual art studies, she chose to
pursue a full-time painting career.

Galen’s work focuses on human and environmental interdependence
and issues of empathy. Her current series explores loss, and our
contraditory nature in a dialogue between dissolving forests and urban
landscapes. Characteristic use of trace images and skewed focus
suggest the construction of memory, and the resonance of absence.

Canvases combine acrylic texturing and underpainting with numerous
transparent washes on wood panel.

Galen divides the year painting in her studio on the Downtown
East Side of Vancouver, and in the BC Interior. Her work can be found
in collections throughout Canada and the US.

Galen Felde is represented by the Bellevue Gallery | www.bellevuegallery.ca