Charlese Phillips

Charlese Annette Phillips is a Delaware based artist whose work is focused around color, texture and identity. She explores her creativity through many artistic mediums including fiber, painting, photography and more, utilizing formal training and self-taught skills. In constructing each work, she hopes to connect with and inspire viewers. She also creates digital marketing materials for businesses, designs and creates murals, and both functional and decorative art. As a Maryland native, she graduated from Salisbury University with a BA in Fine Arts, focusing in ceramics. And received a M.Ed degree from Wilmington University. She is also a recipient of a 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts.

As an artist, her goal is to use her art to explore her deeper self, and to grow a stronger appreciation for her experiences and creative voice. She began experimenting with macrame during 2020 and through that exploration found weaving, and fell in love with searching for or creating new fibers to add to her work, even spinning yarn to add to her pieces. The idea of combining portraits and weavings together came to her one day and she worked to develop a process to bring that idea to life. The subjects in her work are typically of individuals who have inspired her in some way through their own experiences, aesthetic, or turning to herself as the subject. By using guidance from the elements in her portraits, she is able to carefully select the materials for the weaving that surrounds them.

She hopes that as her work is observed, that viewers find joy in seeing all of the little details that have come together to create each piece.