Amy Kelly

Her person artist website is https://www.amykellyart.com/

Her mission as an artist is to reveal the light that is found in the darkness, to celebrate the imperfect and the intangible. The majority of her art is based in the classical tradition of oil painting, but also includes a variety of mixed media as well as sculptural work in bronze. Amy’s current work focuses on portraits of death and decay. Through a variety of media she seeks to capture the elegance of the decomposition process. In addition to paint she incorporates materials that have complimentary characteristics to the subjects she observes.  She is trying to capture the moment between something’s life and the transition to its new purpose, from the singular to the universal. She would like to create an existential snapshot of the lesser traveled paths of the human psyche.  She is interested in celebrating the beauty of the imperfect.  She believes the closer something gets to non-existence, the more evocative it becomes.

It is her intention to unearth the light in the darkness, to find the beauty of dissension, of destruction, to reveal the quiet beauty that exists only at the very center of chaos.  Her work is about celebrating the imperfections and finding the warmth in frailty and fatality.  She constructs spaces from memory, observation and imagination to convey an emotional experience. She hopes to give the intangible a visceral experience by stressing free distortion of form and color. Her work seeks to open a new perception to the viewer, one that resonates within in a way that erases the separation between ourselves and our surroundings.