Alecia Sudmeyer Art

I  am an artist and marketing professional with over 30 years of national and international experience developing and executing strategic marketing functions through traditional and digital media. 

 

I studied painting and English literature (graduating summa cum laude) at Brandeis University. After college, I moved to Portugal where I lived and worked as an artist, web designer, and entrepreneur, starting one of the country’s first, woman-owned, independent digital design agencies. I divided my time between my business in Lisbon and my art studio in the Portuguese countryside. 

 

After selling my business, I received my master’s in comparative studies from the University of Lisbon and studied painting and illustration at the Instituto de Belas Arts. My published work, “Color and Power: Reflections on Matisse in A.S. Byatt’s ‘Art Work,’” is the result of my interest in the connection between art and literature. My master’s thesis, “Deep Fiction: A postcolonial and ecocritical reading of works by Mia Couto and T.C. Boyle,” explores representations of the environment from writers on opposite sides of the world. 

 

I returned to my home state of Maine in 2013 and settled in Belfast, where I have my art studio. In 2024 I returned to making art full time and am excited to begin creating anew with themes that continue to fascinate me: translation, ekphrastic work (written responses to works of art), literature, science, spirituality, philosophy, the environment, and the creative process.