Louise Kelly

Devon Landscape Oil Painter

Louise Kelly studied a BA Honours degree in Illustration Chelsea School of Art and a MA at the Royal College of Art.

Louise Kelly relocated to Devon in September 2020 where she now lives and paints from her studio. Working in oil paints, her inspiration comes from the Devon landscape around her; the country lanes to the rugged coastline, with a distinct focus on the changing effect of light in a sunrise or sunset on the subject. Her oil paintings of Devon are beautiful in their details and dreamy colourings. Louise feels her illustrative background gives her sensitive oil paintings a narrative slant. She has a natural curiosity for creating oil paintings that evoke a sense of place as she tries to capture quiet moments in time.

People love Louise’s sensitive brushwork and sky colourings, attaching a remembered location to her Devon sunrises and Devon sunset oil paintings. They feel they know the place or have been to a similar place, evoking a memory in the viewer. They get lost exploring each of Louise Kelly’s oil paintings, transfixed by her successful capturing of colour in that moment in time.

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