Stacy Caldwell

Lancaster County, PA

Stacy Caldwell lives, works, and paints in Lancaster County, PA, where she inherited a love of fields, hills, rivers, and streams from generations of Mennonite farmers. A childhood love for art was reignited while working at a local university where she spent evenings studying painting, drawing, and art history. In 2018 a three-week residency in an historic dune shack on the Outer Cape of Massachusetts became an especially transformative experience. Later, the solitude of the COVID pandemic, which coincided with the mentorship of E.M. Saniga, also had an important impact. Currently, her paintings are a quiet response to surrounding landscapes and daily events. They are an attempt to engage with a mysterious beauty that reveals itself unexpectedly in familiar places, sometimes slowly over time, other times in split-second vanishing flashes.