Celestial Considerations

About Celestial Considerations

Award-winning multidisciplinary artist Alice Teichert is perhaps best known for her ethereal, luminous abstract paintings, which display her signature use of bold colours, layered translucent glazes and distinctive lettering. This large-scale piece appears as two expansive glowing curtains of colour--vibrant yellow, sage green and flashes of white bordered by striking hard-edged horizontal lines of orange, blue and black. Gestural lines and markings add detail and visual interest.
The complex lacework of soulful elements in Alice Teichert’s art is rooted in a life spent embracing the arts—playing music, writing and drawing. Alice’s mother was an accomplished pianist, and once, while she was playing, an artist and family friend encouraged a 12-year-old Alice to draw the sound of her mother’s music. Teichert’s own poetic visual language is intimate, designed to evoke emotion and invite the viewer into another world.

“Yes, I make space to allow new connections and concepts to merge with existing knowledge and experience… all of which can help me to better understand how togetherness can be achieved through letting things happen by being present to the unexpected…” Alice Teichert

“To this day, when Teichert picks up a brush, she becomes a conductor. Her orchestra has no cellists or violinists, only shapes and colours. But if we could hear her paintings, they might echo Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.”
Agnieszka Matejko, artist

Alice Teichert was born in Paris, France, in 1959. She studied music, philosophy and visual arts in Belgium and France. Teichert’s degree in printmaking and subsequent work solidified a lifelong fascination with text, another signature element of her artwork. Teichert moved to North America in the mid-1980s, living between New York City and Toronto. There, she met some of the most respected abstract expressionist artists of the time, including Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland. Helen Frankenthaler, a major player in the history of American post-war painting, was highly regarded for her spontaneous approach and fluid, lyrical style and became a mentor to Teichert.

Since 1989, Alice Teichert has built an international career with over 40 solo exhibitions in Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany and Australia. The recipient of numerous awards, in 2024, she was inducted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Canadian Arts (RCA) in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the visual arts. Alice Teichert’s paintings are held in many private, corporate and public collections worldwide.