'Sweet and tender artwork.'
Kell's painting is sourced straight from the heart and can sometimes incorporate her other creative endeavors, such as poetry. "It's actually really nerdy," she says with a laugh."It's a part of my art that is maybe a little sci-fi-, fantasy book-inspired, but I actually made an alphabet. It's called 'moon scratch,' and it's a little language that I write poems and then stories into the backgrounds of my paintings with.
"I love books, and I love reading stories. I feel like there's common threads of myth in all religions and all stories. All really good stories kind of have some common threads. So it's not that I'm studying a specific mythology; I'm just thinking in a lot of stories," she adds. While her work for the upcoming show carries her distinct through-lines of deep purples, her signature portraiture and moon scratch, Kell also found herself dipping into new directions."I was wanting to make some sillier paintings and some more playful paintings," she explains."There is still a touch of mythology in them, but they're a little more illustrative and goofy; that's a new thing for me.
Whether they're goofy or brooding, her paintings are always emotive, as if her own thoughts were steeped in the paint before being cast onto canvas. Kell finds most of her inspiration through studying mythology, art and tarot; one of her recent paintings,"Allegory of Charity," is a modernized, star-filled version of Francisco de Zurbarán's circa 1655 painting of the same name.
Kell often uses the female form as a subject in her paintings, emboldening it with metaphor. In"Bloom," which will be included in the Medusa Collective solo, Kell's torso is topped with a violet rose in full bloom, as her right hand rests on her stomach and her left holds a needle pulling thread, which has sewn up a scar over her heart.
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