Alecia Sudmeyer Art

American painter, illustrator, and designer Alecia Sudmeyer was born in Denver, Colorado and lived in Portugal for over 25 years. She now works in Belfast, Maine. 

 

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

 

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

 

She returned to her home state of Maine in 2013 and settled in the midcoast where she has her art studio. Her work explores the intersection of art, translation, literature, science, spirituality, philosophy, the environment, and the creative process.