The Briarwood Gallery will be showing the works of Patti Kelly. The theme of the exhibit, titled “My Back Yard,” is nature. Working in acrylics with mixed media on wood cradle panels, approximately 12 x 12 Inches. The work is abstract and full of color, texture, and movement.
Artist Statement
Sitting in front of a blank canvas, I sometimes have a plan and sometimes it may just be the first color I place on the canvas, and then the second. The process begins. Following the brush, palette knife or scraper, step into a room full of color, music, and vibration which takes me to faraway places. These journeys allow the materials to relate to each other. The focus moves from color to shapes and the marks come together, alive!
My process starts by seeing and looking for hours outside my space. I go for walks around neighborhoods, in parks and woods. I drive by open spaces under vast skies dreaming about what is beyond the sky and what is under the ground. My work is an abstract expression with color and mood as my focus. My hope is that the viewers will feel that space and want to step into their own reflections and memories.
With these paintings created while the world around us is turning dark and upside down, I still have this urgency to create every day. They are a reflection of the challenges and feelings as we wait for our fractured world to come back whole again
About the Artist
Patti Kelly is a local artist who has been educated, shown and taught her art in many New England venues. She has been juried in to Exhibits at ArtsWorcester, and the Danforth Museum. In 2023 she won the jurors choice award at Torrid Abstract impressions. She has also shown her work in local and regional venues
Patti was educated at the School of the Worcester Art Museum, Framingham State College and has a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art.
She taught in Worcester private and Public Schools for several years and now teaches at the Worcester Art Museum.