BIO

Felice comes from a long line of artists. Her grandmother is an award winning Vermont weaver, her mother is an amazing painter and her father has worked in computer graphics since its inception. As a child she remembers sitting around during her mother's figure drawing classes watching people draw. When she walked into her first oil painting class at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1998, holding a box of her mother's old paints, she felt like she had gone home. She knew just what to do.

Felice is an accomplished figurative painter who strives, through her portraits of women, to provide a counterpoint to the passive representations found in art historical tradition. Her subjects are beautiful and observable, but not consumable.

She received a B.F.A from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2000, a M.S. in computer graphics from the Visualization Laboratory at Texas A&M University in 2006 and an M.F.A from University of Texas in 2011. In between she spent time studying classical painting and portraiture at the Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore, MD. She has received numerous fellowships and scholarships and enjoyed a residency at the Vermont Studio center. Felice has been featured in shows across Canada, the North East Coast and Texas. She currently lives in Austin with her husband, fellow artist Dana Younger, and her super step sons Jasper and Wiley. .