About The Artist

Felice Mazzoni is best known for his modern monochromatic landscape depictions and minimalist twisted windblown trees.Felice’s relationship with the west coast landscape stems from his experiences and memories having been born in Tofino and raised in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, Canada, where the rugged beauty of the West Coast and the Pacific Rim National Park became an indelible part of his upbringing. Growing up with the sea as his neighbor and the pristine wilderness as his backyard, Felice's shares his experiences and memories through his art.As an emerging artist, Felice only recently discovered his hidden talent during Covid and began painting on his dining room table late at night during the lockdowns. Felice is self-taught and utilizes the traditional approach of free-hand oil painting without any sketching or tracing and is one of only a few artists that currently paints monochromatic realism landscapes and seascapes.With oil as his medium, Felice builds the surfaces of his canvases with many layers of thinned paint and is particularly known for his fine detailing and use of light in his pieces. He often will use luminosity to highlight individual landscapes and to emphasize the individual features be it the ocean, trees, sand and weather. Light is the essential element that threads his works together as Felice notes, “I want the subjects of my oil paintings to exhibit emotion, for the audience to experience the gnarly bent trees… to smell the ocean and feel the wind”.Felice’s use of light and shadow was recently honored by the Maryland Federation of Art by awarding Felice with the “Juror's Choice” Award in the 6th Annual Light and Shadow International Art Competition and the "Best in Show" Award at the Camelback Gallery Black and White International Juried Award Exhibition.Although Felice now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, he often visits the coast and beaches where he grew up to get new inspiration for his work and now shares his art with the world, selling his pieces both locally and internationally to collectors.

Tree-Line (2023)
Jurors Choice
^6th Annual Light & Shadow International Art Competition, Maryland Federation of Arts
January 2024

Oak Trees (2022)
Artistic Excellence-Traditional
Light & Shadow 2023
Art Competition,
Fusion Art Gallery
November 2023

Sombrio Beach (2023)
Best in Show
Black And White
Camelback Gallery
February 2023

Inquiries

Please contact me personally if you have any questions regarding my work or how its made. Pieces associated with galleries are exclusively for sale through their websites or in person.Feel free to make an appointment for a virtual studio tour. Now accepting new commissions upon request.