Tracy Feldman is a Lancaster artist who has been painting since the 1980's. She's studied art in England, Ireland, and Oregon, as well as with a number of artists in Lancaster - including Andy Smith, Dale Ziegler, and the artists at Franklin and Marshall College and at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. Tracy has had several one-woman shows. She also has participated in many group shows and has had work in juried shows. Her work is in private and corporate collections locally, as well as in Oregon, California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, and Europe. She is also active in a number of art associations, including the Lancaster County Art Association.

Tracy explores her subjects realistically but often incorporates elements that are unexpected--either physically or philosophically. She began painting in the 1980s, and has been painting full time since 2001. Her interest in painting grew out of her love for photography. Her body of work reflects her interest in using a variety of styles and media to explore layers, depth, and distance. Because she has a photographer's eye even her portraits have strong compositions. She very consciously works to capture a feeling of depth in her paintings even when working in a narrow picture plane or painting an abstract. On a physical level, Tracy layers her two-dimensional works by building the paintings' final colors and values using methods, including glazing, learned during her 17 years as purely a watercolorist. The layers in her work often go beyond the physical, allowing viewers to appreciate a piece in a somewhat different way. Her favorite pieces incorporate unusual points of view or sometimes unexpected compositions and pairing of pictorial elements. Titles of paintings are important to Tracy. She uses them to help the viewer to look at the image in a different way. She sees this as mental layering, and thus refers to her style as "reality with a twist."