Felicia S. Touhey is both a painter and printmaker who applies both disciplines in her encaustic work. Using encaustic paints allows her to combine prints, textures and color while experimenting with the unique qualities of this wax based paint. Her images are often landscape oriented and reflect her impressions of light, colors and textures at an observed moment in time.

A long time instructor at the Newport Art Museum School, Felicia teaches drawing and printmaking to adults. She is a juried artist member of the Art League of Rhode Island.

Encaustics are wax based paints that can be used two and three dimensionally as well as in multi-media work. The paints are melted and applied with brushes, palette knives or by pouring. The paint can be reheated with a variety of heating implements and so can be reworked indefinitely. The paint can be can be modeled, sculpted, textured and combined with collage materials.

Exhibits
Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Imagine Fine Art Gallery, Smithfield, RI
Attleboro Center for the Arts, Attleboro, MA
A&C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
Spring Bull Studio, Newport RI
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Arnold Art Store & Gallery, Newport, RI
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
North Hall Gallery, Mass. College of Art, Boston, MA

Professional Affiliations
2003 - Present: Art League of Rhode Island
2003 - Present: Portsmouth Arts Guild
1999 - 2004: Sakonnet Artists' Cooperative Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1983 - 1987: Experimental Etching Studio - A printmaking cooperative, Boston, MA

Education
1981: MFA, Studio Teaching, Boston University, Boston, MA
1980: BFA, Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA