Color is a huge part of Celia Flock’s life and fascinates her endlessly with its mysterious qualities and changing nature. She didn't realize her passion for color until after graduation from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1977. As a printmaking major, Celia soon discovered making art on her own would not involve a printing press. She quickly discovered the joy and immediacy of drawing with colored pencils and soon was incorporating acrylic paint and gesso in her work.
Celia’s first show was at the Collectors Gallery (now defunct) at the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh where a faculty member from Davidson College saw her work and invited Celia to do her first one-man show at the College. What followed were shows at Art Councils around the state, participation in group shows at Spirit Square in Charlotte, the Mint Museum of Art, the Waterworks Gallery in Salisbury, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem and Cameron Crafts Gallery in Chapel Hill. Eventually Celia was asked to join Hodges -Taylor Gallery in 1984. This representation continued until 1995 when she joined the Jerald Melberg Gallery for several years. Both are excellent galleries and were wonderful venues for her work.
Celia was fortunate to win several prizes and commissions over the years including a Public Art Work commission for the Hal Marshall Center in Charlotte, a Gallery Without Walls commission from Spirit Square and a Merit Award from Springs Mill Traveling show in Lancaster, S.C. Later she traveled to Florida where she won First Place in painting at the Coconut Grove Arts show and a Merit Award at the Festival of the Masters at Walt Disney World in Orlando. In 1996 Celia was one of eight artists awarded the N.C. Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship.
For the past ten years Celia has been involved in designing textiles for Springs Industries in Fort Mill, S.C. Her own art has always been with her, but she is beginning to return to it in a fuller capacity, and has done so with the recent opening of her working studio and retail shop, Art & Chocolate. Her latest works are paper collages full of color and patterns and of course paint with colored pencils … Celia feels blessed to be an artist and to taste lightly the joy of creation.
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