Grand Rapids based artist Chelsea Garter has worked in abstract art for many years. She uses a fluid mixture of watercolor, oil paints and acrylic to express her passion for the impermanent, communicate her interest in the individual, and as a means to convey her emotions and write her story. Plants that are plucked from the earth, in-season flowers that quickly die, a sunset, even a fleeting moment; Chelsea views her abstract paintings as a way to suspend the temporal, and each season of life is a unique chapter. The outdoors and the experience of new places are great inspriations for her. With the use of line, she works to understand human-to-human interaction, the complexities of people groups, and the different stages between brokenness and recolciliation in relationships. People, and the way they function and communicate, interest her greatly. Painting is her passion, and each piece displays the entergy and emotion she is working through. Using art as a means of personal, internal work and a place of relief through which to express herself, it is Chelsea's hope to inspire others in their own creative endeavors. Chelsea started professionally as an artist in 2006, and resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She live in a crinkly little neighborhood with her husband and two kiddos. Her love of nature, the ocean, gardening, travel and people drive her work.