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Chalice Meikle is a Charlotte-based abstract painter creating mixed-media artworks inspired by meditation, intuition, and personal growth. Her contemporary paintings explore texture, movement, and transformation while fostering reflection, connection, and creative discovery.
Chalice Meikle
Chalice Meikle received her BFA in Painting in winter 2015 from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. She also moved to Charlotte, NC, in 2015. Ms. Meikle practices her work with painting, murals, printmaking, and wire sculptures. She was recently selected for the cohort of 2025 ArtPop. Ms. Meikle’s core belief is that everyone is an artist and needs some light guidance in order to find their way. She uses Art therapeutically and encourages others to do the same.
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“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...”
― Louise Bourgeois
I also host free figure drawing at Free Range Brewery
Jan. 2021 Free Range Brewery encouraged us to have our first free figure drawing session. Since then, we have offered free figure drawing sessions to the public, open to artists of all levels, to work from a live nude model.
This is truly a great place to start learning to work from the human form, or have a creative practice just for fun.
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Violent Positivity draws inspiration from bold, confrontational phrases that provoke thought while encouraging personal transformation. Unlike Meikle’s usual process—where abstract expressionism leads and titles follow—this series is guided by the phrases themselves. Each work emerges from language, shaping intentional compositions that explore the intersection of struggle and growth. One piece, for example, is inspired by the phrase “Happiness is my vengeance,” a powerful statement shared by a fellow survivor of sexual assault in the book Walking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. This sentiment encapsulates the series’ central theme: finding empowerment through emotional honesty and resilience.
Mixed media on canvas.
2025
- Artwork can come with a cradled frame or painted profile.
“Doodles” is a playful, experimental series created from scrap paper collected during Meikle’s painting classes. These sheets—originally used by students to clean brushes and brayers—are repurposed as the foundation for new works. Meikle responds to each piece by sketching spontaneous line drawings on the reverse side, then cutting directly along those lines, allowing accidental marks and traces of prior use to guide the final form.
This intuitive process transforms discarded materials into dynamic compositions, where chance and gesture play an active role in shaping the outcome.
Each “Doodle” cut-out is a one-of-a-kind work, and no prints are produced. All Doodles are shipped in a shadow frame.
Figure It Out is a series born from exploration, experimentation, and artistic discovery. Created during a period when Meikle was working across multiple paintings while searching for a distinctive visual language, the series began as a study and evolved into something far more significant. Through an intuitive process of refinement and repetition, these works revealed the aesthetic direction she had long sought to achieve. Balancing structure and spontaneity, Figure It Out represents a pivotal moment in Meikle’s practice—a body of work that captures the journey of finding one’s artistic voice while embracing the uncertainty required to get there.
Mixed media on panel
2023
- Artwork can come with a cradled frame or painted profile.
“Doodles” is a playful, experimental series created from scrap paper collected during Meikle’s painting classes. These sheets—originally used by students to clean brushes and brayers—are repurposed as the foundation for new works. Meikle responds to each piece by sketching spontaneous line drawings on the reverse side, then cutting directly along those lines, allowing accidental marks and traces of prior use to guide the final form.
This intuitive process transforms discarded materials into dynamic compositions, where chance and gesture play an active role in shaping the outcome.
Each “Doodle” cut-out is a one-of-a-kind work, and no prints are produced. All Doodles are shipped in a shadow frame.
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