Stephanie King
Stephanie King was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and raised in Norwood, MA. She maintains a studio in Sandwich, located on Cape Cod. She is the founder and owner of Seaside Botanical Art. She received her BA in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1999 and spent 15 years teaching Montessori in Massachusetts, Florida and Maine. Throughout her many years of teaching Montessori, Stephanie always incorporated her love for art and nature into her daily classroom curriculum. Her long-standing passion for art and design are now evident in her framed contemporary and ethereal compositions.
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Within her art, she combines a love of botany with passion for the sea. She not only uses nature as her muse, she literally uses materials found in nature, such as garden flowers, leaves, mosses, lichen and seaweed as her medium. She has spent over two decades exploring the fine lines between land flora and marine algae through designing land and sea compositions. Botanicals and seaweed are a type of lens in which she examines truth, beauty and the natural world. It is her greatest desire to preserve nature , showcasing its beauty through art.
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Stephanie stays connected to the natural world and the arts community on Cape Cod, MA through teaching workshops, participating in conservation volunteer work and maintaining memberships within various art centers, cooperative galleries, museums and nature sanctuaries. In 2023, she was invited to a solo exhibit at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.
When not working on commissions, art shows and gallery events, Stephanie finds inspiration by traveling with her partner to seaside destinations around the world. As a visual artist and educator, she hopes to encourage people to rethink their relationship to the earth and begin to see seaweed and botanicals with a new perspective, curiosity and appreciation.