ABOUT TRACEY

Born in 1950, Long Island, New York, living in Ontario, Canada since 1975, Tracey Farrell is currently residing in Cambridge, Ontario with her husband. She is the founder of CreationsByTracey. Her Art exhibits include community based Theatre Set Designs, Murals and Private showings and Private Art Lessons in New Jersey, San Francisco, Half Moon Bay, Marine County, Carmel, Toronto, Hamilton and Cambridge.

Tracey’s formal Art Education includes study of Fine Art and Design at The School of Visual Arts in New York City and Commercial Art and Art Psychology at the San Francisco Art Academy. Expanding into the profession of Horticulture and Landscape Design; Tracey acquired credentials from Ryerson Institute of Technology in Toronto. Along with formal Art and Academic Education, Tracey acquired training and certifications from varied Natural Healing Modalities, Pastoral Counseling, Life Coach and inter-Faith Ministries.

Tracey’s integrated experience of spirituality, love of nature and artistic abilities bring into existence a Visual Art product that is full of perpetual motion, fluid, black and white or vibrant colours and awe-inspiring beauty. The coloured Drawings and Paintings are done on Acid Free Paper with Multi-Media Acrylic Paint; Coloured Pencils; Water Coloured Pencils; Soft and Oil Pastels. The Black and White Drawings on Acid Free Paper are created with Varied Lead Pencils; Graphite and Black Artist Markers.

The Visual Art is produced in the folowing series:

• TREES
  These paintings, so appreciative and joyous, best presents the artist’s lifelong connection with nature. All-year-around, from early spring blooming trees to winter trees dying against a brilliantly colourful sky are just a window into the powerful meaning, connection and wisdom with nature’s cycles.
• FLOWERS
  This fresh, colourful, floral series focuses on gentle details and beautiful textures. One can imagine being surrounded by the ethereal presence of many wild flowers. Inspired by the artist’s lifelong interaction with horticulture and personal fascination with the unique gifts a flower offers;
• CHAKRA
  The CHAKRA SERIES are brilliant with fluid colours and open flow that breathe beyond their frames with appearance of un-intended ascending and descending angelic characters from other worlds. Every painting carries its own energy and creates a different atmosphere, and they are all different. Each painting is a mirror. They have been created at different times, when the artist had different emotions and intentions.
• NATURE DIVAS
  This figurative series, inspired by the artist’s lifelong fascination with angelic iconography, includes both coloured and monochromatic (black and white) creations. While some encompass a strong sense of rhythm and movement, others portray a gentle peace and calmness about them. There is a pleasant and thoughtful emphasis on small areas and details using complementary colour schemes, with fluid imagery continuing off page.
• BIRDS OF PARADISE
  This series offers a fresh perspective, inspiring viewers to experience birds in a fantasy world. Because of the multi-coloured decorative wings, each tells a story evoking thoughts and feelings ranging from awe and tranquility to humor and playfulness. These birds go beyond mere documentation of aviation life. Tracey’s unique approach transcends the ordinary into extraordinary, showcasing birds in a way that elevates them to subjects of fine art. They captivate delicate interplay of perpetual motion, transforming the subject into love of life, beauty and frolicking adoration, bringing an ethereal quality into birds.
• ANGEL
  This figurative series are inspired by the artist’s lifelong fascination with angelic iconography. While some encompass a strong sense of rhythm and movement, others portray a gentle peace and calmness about them. There is a pleasant and thoughtful emphasis on small areas and details using complementary colour schemes, with fluid imagery continuing off page.
• DANCER
  This series is limited in colour but full of life with more focus on visual movement, rhythm, with a thoughtful splash of pattern. There is an interesting variety of line work and sense of form which in many pieces fluidly continues off the page.
• TREE OF LIFE
  This series, designed around the structure of various trees, goes beyond just trees. The images are created using mixed media: coloured pencils and pastels. It is a lively, stylistic series with a bold colour palette, and a strong play on warm and cool themes. Unity is created with an ongoing pattern of circles and themes surrounding celestial and earthly elements. Also included in this series, Tracey very cleverly has integrated the 12 Horoscope Symbols aligning with the theme Elements of Fire; Earth; Water and Air.
• SKY
  This Sky Series of early morning, brilliant sunrise and sunset and all yearly seasons evoke a transcendental experience of a vast endless reality.
• MOON
  In this Series incorporating the cycle of the Moon, Tracey has captured alluring moments within the night sky, some with moons greeting the morning. Each of this series evoke a transcendental experience of a vast endless reality.

Tracey released two MUSIC CDs. The lyrics and melodies are described as unique; very spiritual; beautiful; sweet; endearing and straight from the heart. A recording of 19 Baha’i Prayers with melodies composed by Tracey is in the process of production.

Tracey is not a typical musician or singer/songwriter. She is not musically trained, plays no instrument and has a limited understanding of musical structure. The Prayer/songs that are recorded here are inspirations that moved through her - that fell to Earth through the channel that is Tracey. Because of this, we are gifted with pieces of music that are extra-ordinary and unique - simple melodies with haunting, mystical qualities that linger in the heart and soul of the listener. Building instrumental music around these pearls has been challenging, exhilarating and rewarding.

True to Tracey’s wisdom, her WRITING, not only makes use of the English language with elegance, her poetry actually consistently takes on stylistic form. A Lovers Precious Dance I, II and III, are a compilation of inspired wondrous poetic flow. These love poems express the sensual dynamics of an intimate relationship as well as longing and separation from the beloved and the pain and pleasure that is experienced and exchanges with the lover’s precious dance. As a Writer, Tracey has self-published books of Poetry, Affirmations, and a Self Development Workbook.

All of Tracey’s creative works invoke comments such as "Lovely"; "Very Beautiful"; "Open Flow in Motion"; "Unique and Life Giving"; "Beautiful and Life Affirming"; "Very Spiritual and Healing" and "Empowering and Transforming" and "Spectacular Affect".