Meet the Artist- Fonda Clark Haight
Meet the Artist- Fonda Clark Haight
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Turquoise Waters with Emma Petitt
Turquoise Waters with Emma Petitt
The Spiral Path with Kristen Fagan
The Spiral Path with Kristen Fagan
Flirt, Forage and Flow with Hali Karla
Flirt, Forage and Flow with Hali Karla
Lucky Fire Dragon with Eulalia Mejia
Lucky Fire Dragon with Eulalia Mejia
Winter Cardinal Spread with Monica Stadalski
Winter Cardinal Spread with Monica Stadalski
Self Loving Self Portraits with Gabbi Kitchener
Self Loving Self Portraits with Gabbi Kitchener
Dare to Decide with Jenny Grant
Dare to Decide with Jenny Grant
Watercolour Texting with Joanne Sharpe
Watercolour Texting with Joanne Sharpe
Art Journal Minimalism with Amanda Grace
Art Journal Minimalism with Amanda Grace
Unleash Your Inner Abstract with Laura Dame
Unleash Your Inner Abstract with Laura Dame
Imagined Landscapes with Shinjini
Imagined Landscapes with Shinjini
Scrap Paper Portraits with Jerney Marisha
Scrap Paper Portraits with Jerney Marisha
Fun Fish Sketches with Susan Yeates
Fun Fish Sketches with Susan Yeates
Glorious Golden Wattle with Hayley Kruger
Glorious Golden Wattle with Hayley Kruger
Paint an Oyster with Laurel Greenfield
Paint an Oyster with Laurel Greenfield
Intention Journal with Sarah Gardner
Intention Journal with Sarah Gardner
Fully Ripened with Angela Fehr
Fully Ripened with Angela Fehr
Art Journaling with Kira Harding
Art Journaling with Kira Harding
Moth Messages with Kristen Fagan
Moth Messages with Kristen Fagan
A Part of this Place with Hali Karla
A Part of this Place with Hali Karla
Lucky Air Dragon with Eulalia Mejia
Lucky Air Dragon with Eulalia Mejia
Sigil Ideas with Fonda Clark Haight
Sigil Ideas with Fonda Clark Haight
Face the Feelings with Jenny Grant
Face the Feelings with Jenny Grant
Self Portraits with Personality with Gabbi Kitchener
Self Portraits with Personality with Gabbi Kitchener
Watercolour Embellishment with Joanne Sharpe
Watercolour Embellishment with Joanne Sharpe
Leaving the Past in the Past with Amanda Grace
Leaving the Past in the Past with Amanda Grace
Scrappy Art Journaling with Jerney Marisha
Scrappy Art Journaling with Jerney Marisha
Collage Unfurling with Galia Alena
Collage Unfurling with Galia Alena
Story Telling into Integration with Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd
Story Telling into Integration with Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd
Mushroom Time with Susan Yeates
Mushroom Time with Susan Yeates
Watercolour Strawberry Basket with Laurel Greenfield
Watercolour Strawberry Basket with Laurel Greenfield
Getting Intentional with Sarah Gardner
Getting Intentional with Sarah Gardner
Loosen Up Your Watercolour Landscapes with Angela Fehr
Loosen Up Your Watercolour Landscapes with Angela Fehr
Play to Express with Jenny Grant
Play to Express with Jenny Grant
The Original Selfie with Gabbi Kitchener
The Original Selfie with Gabbi Kitchener
For the Love of Jug with Pam Thorburn
For the Love of Jug with Pam Thorburn
Lucky Earth Dragon with Eulalia Mejia
Lucky Earth Dragon with Eulalia Mejia
Book of Luminous Things with Galia Alena
Book of Luminous Things with Galia Alena
Spontaneous Intutive Watercolour
Spontaneous Intutive Watercolour
Using the Other Hand- Kira Harding
Using the Other Hand- Kira Harding
Color Wheels with Laurel Greenfield
Color Wheels with Laurel Greenfield
Journal as a Place of Listening with Amanda Grace
Journal as a Place of Listening with Amanda Grace
Signs & Sayings with Fonda Clark Haight
Signs & Sayings with Fonda Clark Haight
Brush Letter Ephemera with Sarah Gardner
Brush Letter Ephemera with Sarah Gardner
The Journey of Texture with Shawn Petite
The Journey of Texture with Shawn Petite
Momma's Little Helpers with Jerney Marisha
Momma's Little Helpers with Jerney Marisha
Neuroart Bird with Monica Stadalski
Neuroart Bird with Monica Stadalski
Painty Collage Papers with Laura Dame
Painty Collage Papers with Laura Dame
Mixed Media Meditation with Kristen Fagan
Mixed Media Meditation with Kristen Fagan
A Watercolour Ritual with Joanne Sharpe
A Watercolour Ritual with Joanne Sharpe
Doodling Organic Shapes with Susan Yeates
Doodling Organic Shapes with Susan Yeates
Fonda Clark Haight is a mixed media, intuitive artist living in the mountains of NC. Looking past the obvious, close observation and engagement of my truth is the process. The challenge is to see beyond the distractions of the conspicuous to engage with my feelings deep in the subconscious. My goal is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty in unusual places, and to question the truth in themselves.
Website ☆ Instagram ☆ Facebook ☆ Etsy
Fonda's Workshops on Art is Magic:
Creature Comforts ☆ Dream On ☆ The Down Deep ☆ Forgiveness ☆ Slapdash
Tell us about your journey to become an artist?
I have no formal training in the arts. I think I took one art class in college. When I was 34, my twin sister gave me a set of watercolors for Christmas. I was horrible with watercolors lol. But there was something about the way it made me feel, something about creating that I knew was for me. It was a clarity of expression that I had not really known until then. I haven’t looked back once since that day.
Tell us about your journey to claim the title artist?
What is it about making art that stirs your soul? I am all about discovering beauty in unusual places. For me, those places are usually about the grief and anger and so called “dark” emotions that we all have and for the most part are afraid to explore. There is such beauty in just “being”. In having your own emotions and not prettying them up. There is beauty in a child’s scribble for me because they are free to just do what they want. In the physical world there is beauty for me in the well loved things, and also the trash. That frayed piece of cardboard with all the layers showing thru, that piece of tape on the telephone pole that has picked up the layers of wood and paint underneath, those rusted pieces of metal bits in an old shed.
There is a guy that lives down the street from me…and he has had an upholstered chair outside under a maple tree for a year. When I drive by…sometimes there is nothing in the chair. The other day there was a stuffed cat. (at least I hope it was a stuffed cat because it never moved). I don’t know this guy…but I make up stories about that dang chair. What’s it for? Is it performance art? No one ever sits in it but day after day it’s out there rotting and I assume gathering bugs. It wasn’t as interesting in the first few weeks as it is now. It’s a container for my imagination, sitting out there rotting. I consider it to be some sort of metaphor now. It’s a perfect example of the Down Deep for me. I’m not sure what that says about me though.
What do you wish you had known at the beginning of your creative journey?
I wish I had realized that I could just allow it all. The scribbles, the ugly, the odd, the weird. Every single mark tells a story for me these days.
What sort of creative walls do you hit?
I hit walls like everyone. Usually my wall is about making myself sit down to work rather than being blocked. I think because I don’t judge the end result the walls aren’t there as often. Having said that I tend to create furiously for long periods of time and then have to just rest lol. I’m what I call a serial creator. One thing after another shows up when I am in the flow. So I have learned to live with those cycles and not judge them. I DO create every single day no matter what. I think it’s important to keep my hand moving.
To learn more about Fonda watch our Talking with Artists interview HE



