About the Artist

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From the earliest age Stephanie was drawn to the ethereal world of flowers. Throughout her life she has explored many art mediums.  Nature, music, traveling and creating have always been Stephanie's guides through life from childhood to adulthood.  Through many twists and turns, great gains and great losses, Stephanie has never lost sight of preserving the beauty the natural world is constantly providing. 

Stephanie King is an eco-artist, educator and naturalist.  She creates multi-media art that reflects her interest in the natural world.  Within her art, she combines a love of botany with passion for the sea. Stephanie not only uses nature as her muse, she literally uses materials found in nature, such as sustainably foraged flowers, leaves, mosses, lichen and seaweed as her medium.  It is her greatest desire to preserve nature, showcasing its beauty through art.  She has spent over two decades exploring the fine lines between land flora and marine algae through designing land & sea compositions.  Botanicals and seaweed are a type of lens in which she examines truth, beauty and the natural world.  She has a talent for finding extraordinary beauty in the overlooked and often ignored world of plants.
 
Stephanie was raised in Norwood, MA.  She maintains a studio in Sandwich, located on Cape Cod.  Stephanie received her BA in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst  in 1999.  Prior to becoming a full time artist, she taught Montessori education for fifteen years in Sudbury, MA, Estero, Naples and Marco Island, FL and Yarmouth, ME. Throughout her many years of teaching Montessori, Stephanie always incorporated her love for art and nature into her daily classroom curriculum.  Her long-standing passion for art and design are now evident in her framed contemporary and ethereal compositions.

Stephanie stays connected to the natural world and the arts on Cape Cod through teaching workshops, participating in conservation volunteer work and maintaining memberships in various art centers, collectives and museums. In 2023, she was invited to a solo exhibit at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. When not working on commissions, art shows and gallery events, Stephanie finds inspiration by traveling with her partner to seaside destinations around the world.
 
As a visual artist and teacher, Stephanie hopes to encourage more people to rethink their relationship to the earth and better understand human impacts and interconnections.
 
Stephanie maintains membership in the following organizations and cooperatives:
  • Massachusetts Audubon
  • Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
  • Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA
  • Co-Operative artist member Woods Hole Handwork's Art Gallery, Woods Hole, MA 
  • Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA
  • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Stephanie King's artwork can be purchased at the following locations:
  • Woodruff's Art Center Mashpee, MA 
  • Woods Hole Handworks Co-Operative Art Gallery May-October
Private collections:
  • The Pilot House Restaurant Sandwich Marina Sandwich, MA
  • Bucatino Restaurant & Wine Bar Falmouth, MA
  • The Quarterdeck Restaurant Falmouth, MA 
  • International Airbnb Praiano, Italy
Exhibitions:
  • Cape to Cape, juried show, Cotuit Center for the Arts, April 2023 Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Art Colony Gloucester, MA. 
  • Color and Form, group exhibition, Woodruff's Art Center June 8th - July 14, 2023 Mashpee, MA
  • Sea Pattern's, solo exhibition  July 25 -September 9, 2023 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
  • Deck the Walls, juried show, Arts foundation of Cape Cod December 2023 Hyannis, MA
  • Annual Member Show, Cotuit Center for the Arts Dec. 2023 Cotuit, MA
  • Brrr, group member show, Falmouth Art Center,  January 2024 Falmouth, MA
  • Blink, Group member show, Falmouth Art Center, March 2024 Falmouth, MA
  • Members' Open Exhibition, PAAM, March 2024 Provincetown, MA
Upcoming:
  • Annual Summer Juried Show, Falmouth Art Center, June 28 - July 29, 2024
  • Collected Illuminations, collaborative exhibit, Woodruff's Art Center July 18 - August 23, 2024
  • The Members' 12x12 Exhibition and Silent Auction, PAAM, August 2-September 15, 2024






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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi