Clarity

Vadella grew up in a small town amidst the traditions and warmth of an Italian American family. Her move to Philadelphia in 2013 introduced contrasting energies to her life and a new element to her artistic impulses nurtured from childhood. Alongside her artmaking, Vadella worked as an emergency department nurse. “That experience: intense, human and often fragile, continues to inform my practice. It taught me to sit with emotion in its rawest forms, to witness without turning away, and to find stillness within disorder.” Art took on new importance in her life, helping to keep her anxiety at bay. Vadella uses watercolor and oil to evoke moments “where the noise resolves into something quieter and more honest.” She says she is influenced by forms of nature, fleeting emotional states, and the act of feeling deeply and without apology. “I want to create moments that feel like remembering, like exhaling, like coming back to oneself.”