“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

About Chelsea

Chelsea is an artist and curator based in Greenville, South Carolina. Through Field & Found Studios, she pairs contemporary abstract landscapes with vintage and found pieces that already carry a history.

Drawn to movement, texture, and patina, Chelsea approaches both painting and curating with the same instinct: to create spaces that feel layered, personal, and lived in.

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Inspiration: A Garden is for Everyone.
Inspiration: A Garden is for Everyone.

The plants will find a way. In reasonable conditions, and with a little support, they’ll rise and they will bloom. There’s a connection to be made there, about humanity, about our abilities, and about what we can hope for.

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On the Easel: Alligator’s View
On the Easel: Alligator’s View

A single painting can change everything. What began as a struggle to reconcile abstraction with the marks I loved from my Meadows series became an unexpected breakthrough—one inspired by a late-night studio session, a children's book, and an unlikely perspective.

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Notes From the Studio…

Let’s Connect.

Let’s just get over with, shall we? I mean, I really hope we can hang but you should know the full story.
I love them together, I love them on their own..I just love them! 🩵💚🤍 Minis available now at the link in bio. #abstractart #landscapepainting #contemporaryart #colorfulart #colorfulhome
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth ins
Mixing colors hasn’t necessarily gotten easier but it has gotten more predictable over time. Mixing, for me, became fun when I stopped trying to box it in..when I stopped trying to be so literal about it. I began to notice that each time I r