Variations, 2023, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA
Fine Arts Honorable Mention, Daffodils 3, Monoprint
Yellow daffodils are a cheerful sign of spring, easily recognizable here despite their reduced form into overlapping shapes and outlines. The layering of colors in speckled, fractal-like patterns, a result of the monotype process, suggests a frosty chill to the spring air.
Juror - Susan Anderson, Curatorial Research Associate, Harvard Art Museums
The Blues Show, 2016, Wickford Art Association, Wickford, RI
Second Place, Geranium 3, Monoprint
There were over 140 works of art, and about one half had to be eliminated to fit the exhibition...In the end the three winning pieces nicely show BLUE in three unique modes...a thoughtfully seen organic print in subtle blue variations...
Juror - Peter Geisser, Glass Artist & Art Educator, Rhode Island, February 2016
Members Show 2015, Wickford Art Associaiton, Wickford, RI
Honorable Mention, Golden Ties, Collagraph Print & collage
This print has a bold composition based on a grid, all right angles...and then there are the circles, through which a golden thread dances. I loved the line quality of the tiny woven threads which, in combination, create a bold compostition.
Juror - Marjorie Ball, Oil Painter, Rhode Island, March 2015
All Media Exhibition 2014, Wickford Art Association, Wickford, RI
Honorable Mention, Table Shadows, Solar plate intaglio print
Table Shadows speaks of delicacy on every level - from the soft, once white papers layered one-on-top-of-the-other to the slight and complex plant life rendered in subtle greens, yellows and near blues. Touhey's print strongly conveys a poetic moment of reflection that for obvious reasons captivated and moved the artist.
Juror - Will Brown, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art, RISD Museum of Art, April 2014
The Bay Magazine, November 2013
Intricate Prints - Encaustic Artist Felicia Touhey frames her natural view...
http://thebaymagazine.com/stories/Intricate-Prints-Art-Felecia-Touhey-Beach-Studios-Middletown-Painting-The-Bay,10316
8 Visions, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Encaustic work is hard to do WELL without using the process as a crutch for confidence. Here Felicia uses the process as if it were her first language. I have an appreciation of the patterning and design aspects of the work.
Juror - Seth Rainville, Curator at the New Bedford Art Museum and ceramic artist. August - September 2012
Art League of Rhode Island Members Show at Salve Regina University , Newport, RI -
In Felicia Touhey's "Geometrics'" the winter landscape is manipulated in a very different manner. A monotype collage, the strikingly vertical work is composed of two prints cut apart and reassembled, adhered to the panel and then painted and drawn over with encaustic paints, a wax based and ancient form of paint. Together, this is a slender forest of naked trees, their skeletons laid bare in the winter.
Daniel Combs, Newport Mercury, Feb 23 - March 1, 2011
Art League of Rhode Island Members Show at the Newport Art Museum
...reflected in the group's Newport show, which features everything from traditional landscapes and still lifes to various strains of abstraction,mixed media and conceptual art. In the former category look for...In the second, more adventurous group, look for Felicia Touhey's semi-abstract tree study "The Ying & Yang of Trees"...
Bill Van Siclen, The Providence Journal, Thursday, October 12, 2006
Art League of Rhode Island Members Show at A&C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI -
Two personal favorites among the landscape inspired works are Felicia Touhey's mixed-media piece, "Spring Rhythms," and Bunny Harvey's large-scale oil on canvas, "Self Sown."
Touhey's row of seven birches conveys a fairy tale quality. The scene pops out like a surprise in the middle of a woodland walk, with abstracted wisps of white settling like clouds, mist or snow and cut boxy pieces of brown representing falling leaves.
Doug Norris, South County Independent, Tuesday, November 30, 2004
New Visions in Pastel, Arnold Art Gallery, Newport, RI
Touhey's work contrasts sharply with the other four artists as she employs a highly active surface to create an ethereal atmosphere for her simple scenes of trees and grasses. In an almost primitive, sketchy style, Touhey paints diagonal and vertical lines to create shapes that hop with energy. Her color application, mixing greens and yellow-greens with brighter colors in that vertical, line by line style, charges her surface with an atmosphere that seems almost to the cover the scene with a colored haze.
In "Noresman 90-Evergreen," that style and personality create a compelling layering effect as she divides her horizontal surface into fifths, each horizontal plane (defined by vertical shapes, mind you) becomes another level of depth. This and other scenes, while they certainly don't seem threatening, do possess an agitated nature because of Touhey's kinetic application of color. She seems to suggest that nature, as we view it, possesses an ethereal energy, and she has set out to capture that.
John Pantalone, Newport This Week, October 18, 1990
Fine Arts Honorable Mention, Daffodils 3, Monoprint
Yellow daffodils are a cheerful sign of spring, easily recognizable here despite their reduced form into overlapping shapes and outlines. The layering of colors in speckled, fractal-like patterns, a result of the monotype process, suggests a frosty chill to the spring air.
Juror - Susan Anderson, Curatorial Research Associate, Harvard Art Museums
The Blues Show, 2016, Wickford Art Association, Wickford, RI
Second Place, Geranium 3, Monoprint
There were over 140 works of art, and about one half had to be eliminated to fit the exhibition...In the end the three winning pieces nicely show BLUE in three unique modes...a thoughtfully seen organic print in subtle blue variations...
Juror - Peter Geisser, Glass Artist & Art Educator, Rhode Island, February 2016
Members Show 2015, Wickford Art Associaiton, Wickford, RI
Honorable Mention, Golden Ties, Collagraph Print & collage
This print has a bold composition based on a grid, all right angles...and then there are the circles, through which a golden thread dances. I loved the line quality of the tiny woven threads which, in combination, create a bold compostition.
Juror - Marjorie Ball, Oil Painter, Rhode Island, March 2015
All Media Exhibition 2014, Wickford Art Association, Wickford, RI
Honorable Mention, Table Shadows, Solar plate intaglio print
Table Shadows speaks of delicacy on every level - from the soft, once white papers layered one-on-top-of-the-other to the slight and complex plant life rendered in subtle greens, yellows and near blues. Touhey's print strongly conveys a poetic moment of reflection that for obvious reasons captivated and moved the artist.
Juror - Will Brown, Curatorial Assistant, Contemporary Art, RISD Museum of Art, April 2014
The Bay Magazine, November 2013
Intricate Prints - Encaustic Artist Felicia Touhey frames her natural view...
http://thebaymagazine.com/stories/Intricate-Prints-Art-Felecia-Touhey-Beach-Studios-Middletown-Painting-The-Bay,10316
8 Visions, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Encaustic work is hard to do WELL without using the process as a crutch for confidence. Here Felicia uses the process as if it were her first language. I have an appreciation of the patterning and design aspects of the work.
Juror - Seth Rainville, Curator at the New Bedford Art Museum and ceramic artist. August - September 2012
Art League of Rhode Island Members Show at Salve Regina University , Newport, RI -
In Felicia Touhey's "Geometrics'" the winter landscape is manipulated in a very different manner. A monotype collage, the strikingly vertical work is composed of two prints cut apart and reassembled, adhered to the panel and then painted and drawn over with encaustic paints, a wax based and ancient form of paint. Together, this is a slender forest of naked trees, their skeletons laid bare in the winter.
Daniel Combs, Newport Mercury, Feb 23 - March 1, 2011
Art League of Rhode Island Members Show at the Newport Art Museum
...reflected in the group's Newport show, which features everything from traditional landscapes and still lifes to various strains of abstraction,mixed media and conceptual art. In the former category look for...In the second, more adventurous group, look for Felicia Touhey's semi-abstract tree study "The Ying & Yang of Trees"...
Bill Van Siclen, The Providence Journal, Thursday, October 12, 2006
Art League of Rhode Island Members Show at A&C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI -
Two personal favorites among the landscape inspired works are Felicia Touhey's mixed-media piece, "Spring Rhythms," and Bunny Harvey's large-scale oil on canvas, "Self Sown."
Touhey's row of seven birches conveys a fairy tale quality. The scene pops out like a surprise in the middle of a woodland walk, with abstracted wisps of white settling like clouds, mist or snow and cut boxy pieces of brown representing falling leaves.
Doug Norris, South County Independent, Tuesday, November 30, 2004
New Visions in Pastel, Arnold Art Gallery, Newport, RI
Touhey's work contrasts sharply with the other four artists as she employs a highly active surface to create an ethereal atmosphere for her simple scenes of trees and grasses. In an almost primitive, sketchy style, Touhey paints diagonal and vertical lines to create shapes that hop with energy. Her color application, mixing greens and yellow-greens with brighter colors in that vertical, line by line style, charges her surface with an atmosphere that seems almost to the cover the scene with a colored haze.
In "Noresman 90-Evergreen," that style and personality create a compelling layering effect as she divides her horizontal surface into fifths, each horizontal plane (defined by vertical shapes, mind you) becomes another level of depth. This and other scenes, while they certainly don't seem threatening, do possess an agitated nature because of Touhey's kinetic application of color. She seems to suggest that nature, as we view it, possesses an ethereal energy, and she has set out to capture that.
John Pantalone, Newport This Week, October 18, 1990