AVERY KELLY ART

AVERY Kelly’s paintings and relief prints reflect her love of nature and animals and her joy in art making. She has a Master of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies. “I love working with paint in various ways,” says the Fort Worth artist. “I do a lot of birds and animals we have here in Texas, such as roadrunners, foxes, deer and burrowing owls.”

Her oil paintings are colorful and vibrant, showing animals in their natural settings, as well as landscapes, such as coastal images of water and sky. Picture a roadrunner on alert, a fox staring at you from the forest’s edge, a deer in a serene aspen stand. Kelly’s other artistic medium is relief printmaking, also of animals and landscapes. Inspired by her love of the contrasts in Pueblo pottery, the prints are black-and-white images made from linocuts and hand pulled through a printing press. Another area of investigation for Kelly is whimsical, small-scale acrylic paintings that convey a storybook feeling. She also does commissions, including pets, landscapes and other naturebased subject matter inspired by a client’s ideas. Capturing a sense of expression and character in animal portraits is something she particularly enjoys. Notecards with images of Kelly’s work are also available.