Today her body of work is unified by its exploration of color intensity and different kinds of lines. And she receives inspiration from everything around her including other artists as well as from the constant flow of imagery arising from her thoughts and imagination.
“Kandinsky’s love of color and line has also been a big influence on me,” she said. “I love to play with shapes and complementary colors. I use the basic color wheel hues in most of my work and love the way opposite colors provide contrast and define figures.”

Felicity also loves all mediums and goes through cycles exploring the inherent characteristics in one after another. The one she employs most frequently is acrylic paint and basic graphite, but she has also created sculptures using plaster and concrete and dabbled in mosaic work.

“I really love it all,” she exclaimed enthusiastically. And I’ve developed a style I call "City Funk" which best amplifies my love of color, shapes and lines. I love it because of how vivid and bright the pieces turn out.”

Her art today takes two strong directions, painting abstract nudes and creating functional art. She started painting nude figures in high school when a group of friends and her attended a local figure drawing group. She was drawn to the lines and curves of the female figure and the way they flowed into each other. Then in college she took Life Drawing and again found it soothing and expressive.

Her functional art started when she worked with Artstart. They do a chair auction annually as a fundraiser for the program. The first summer they did chairs and at the closing reception she was approached by a man who told her that his boss was going to outbid him on her chair. He gave Felicity his business card and told her that he wanted a custom chair painted for his wife.

“I was ecstatic,” she said. And my painting furniture just continued from that point on. I like the fact that my furniture art is decorative and useful!”
  
For the last four years, Felicity has exhibited a painted chair in Artstart's Chair Auction. She has gotten a few commissions from those exhibits and also from contact via myspace and friends and acquaintances.

“I love doing commissioned work the most, because then I know I'm creating something personally for someone the way they want it to be done. That's the most satisfying to me,” she explains.
 
Her work with Artstart continues and has led her into the administrative side of the art business. She has been assisting the lead artists as well as doing her own projects within the program. Felicity is also working on getting a substitute teaching permit so she can tiptoe into the “waters of teaching.” If she likes it like she expects to, she will apply to Sonoma State University's Credential program to get her teaching credential.

“I want to inspire the next generation through art,” she explains.

And since enthusiasm for the subject matter is critical to all good teaching, Felicity is well on her way to a vibrant and satisfying career in art education.

Interviewing Felicity for this featured artist article I was reminded of what the philosopher Martin Buber once said, “The way will show you the way, and the way is not to withhold oneself.” It would seem then that art has not only shown Felicity the way, step by step, but her willingness to enter it fully, without reservation or hesitation, continues to illuminate the path ahead.