Ulrica Bell

Ulrica is a mixed-media ethnic artist who specializes mainly in collage and is inspired by the diversity of world culture. She is the daughter of New York artist Ulric Bell who encouraged her to paint from an early age and taught her that subjects for art surround us. With her father, she drew and painted New Yorkers in Central Park, circus performers and city scenes. As an adult, her work has moved toward semi-abstraction.
 

A former Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya, she has traveled throughout the world. Her work has been inspired in particular by the two years she spent in Africa, and by trips to Israel, Asia and Latin America. As a teacher and lifelong student, she has explored many cultures.

She studied art at Bryn Mawr College, at the San Francisco Art Institute, the California Collage of Arts and Crafts, and at the University of California at Davis. She has studied with many artists including Arthur Secunda and Maxine Masterfield. She has had several one-woman shows and has participated in many group shows. She is a juried member of Woman Painters West and a founding member of the Collage Society of America.

Her art hangs in Art From the Heart in Green Valley, , at the Cedar Centre Gallery in Lancaster, and the Arts and Valleys Gallery in Lake Hughes, formerly at the Four Seasons Gallery in Wrightwood, California and in private collections all over the United States. She has exhibited in many national shows and museums and won awards for her colorful collages and mixed media works of art. Her work combines many media and is experimental. . She believes that there is a healing power that resides in art. To learn more about the artist or to contact the artist directly, email Artyzebra@aol.com.