MILLIE KELLY

Abundant in colour, joy and humour, the imagery dances on the canvas and in the gallery space; inviting the viewer’s eye and allowing her stories to stream around you. There is an honesty to the way in which the works are painted – layers and ghostly outlines of ‘workings-out’ are visible, canvas is left stained with diluted paint that luminates the canvas’ ground beneath, as if honouring both the hardships and successes of each painting’s life. Rendered through persistent balancing and harmonisation of composition and colour, Kelly paints intuitively and in response to other colours and shapes on the canvas. Whilst a very basic composition is sketched initially, imagery of vegetation and animal life grows as she paints,
saturating the canvas with the flora and fauna of her own imagined world.