Carlie Pearson is a recent BFA graduate from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Born in 2001, she considers herself to have been an artist for her entire life, but that her formal start was in 2018. She enjoys creating works focusing on nature and how to incorporate nature into the artworks themselves, as well as how to find a balance between contemporary and classical styles. Pearson is currently in a graduate program to complete her art education certification while continuing her art practice. Pearson works and is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Nature Paintings

Nature Drawings

Moss Studies

Landscape Paintings

Nature is art. I am nature. What I create is art.I create work exploring the ideas of nature, the man-made, natural growth, resilience, and even death. I create my work by using various materials including mud, moss, rocks, paper, grass, roots, seeds, and more. I intend to keep my materials and the process as natural as possible, as well as embracing nature in all steps of the artmaking process. I do not use any methods of preservation in my work, embracing the ideas of growth, death, and decay of the work. I embrace the idea of my work not lasting generations, instead embracing nature taking back what I kindly borrowed. These works focus on natural, organic forms, not meant to represent a specific object or idea. I find interest in the line that divides the living and the non-living, as well as the line between nature and man-made. If I create a painting from natural, found materials, is it still nature? Is it art? Can nature and art become one, or would my hand in the work cause it to become a man-made object? If an object continues to grow and take over, would the work be considered nature? These are all questions I explore in my work.

Carlie Pearson

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