Lush

Gatya Kelly’s vibrant oil paintings convey the delicateness and strength of this medium to suggest the elusive quality of light and express nuance. “Even in the deepest darkness there is light.” Kelly’s chiaroscuro still lifes are an intimate dialogue between the painter and the painting, which becomes “a dance when the work finds its own presence, when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the painting is liberated from the artist. I’m looking for a sense of rightness in the combination of drama, colour and tech- nique to create balance, truth, serenity.”