Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Cast down the walls. Breach and breathe. Inhalation. BREATH, inside and outside. This concerns the thorax. The muscular walls of the rib-cage, of the defenses of the thorax, exposed to the winds. Your breath has been set free, not taken away. An understatement: mouth to mouth contact with distance, as though with an infinity of air. And because the walls are down, there is no swelling.

Jean-Francois Lyotard, 1988, p182[i]

Kelly’s work is centered on topographical land and coastalscapes. Walking every morning, she is impelled by the need to move and be in open space to make art.
By allowing herself to be present in a landscape, and to revisit it repetitively, she develops an intensely personal relationship with the area she is absorbing.
The ritual act of walking every day has become the fundamental starting point for her work, capturing both the physicality of moving through space, and the
emotions evoked by tracing the routes, tracks, textures, hills, cliffs, sea and fields that she is exploring.
Her work documents the shifts and movements that shape and pattern the natural terrain; including those from the seasons and weather. The geological record of stratified cliffs, and the dips and furrows of a valley transformed over time… The wild fennel that towers above the chaos of Spring colours by a riverbank and along with herself, the eagle mates she knows by sight, keeping careful watch.
Drawing her viewer along a path that helps them traverse not simply a landscape, or even a place, but an immersive experience that encapsulates both the temporal and spatial qualities of movement. Drawings and sketches are crucial to this process, as it is through this exploratory activity that each study is transformed via her memories and thought processes.

[i] Jean-Francois Lyotard, 1988, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, Editions Galilee, Paris. Translated by Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby, 1991, Polity Press, Cambridge

Artist Statement:

“I find that pushing paint around a canvas en plein air is representative of the way that I move through a landscape. The visual ideas that I want to convey in charcoal and paint are of being present and of moving through space, my vision constantly changing. By exploring mark making, colour blocks, texture, line, and form through my paint-play, I hope to express the freedom and lyricism of joy that I feel when walking. “

 

Born in Bedfordshire UK in 1976.In 1998 graduated with a BA HONS Visual Studies at the University of Portsmouth.

In 2003 Kelly moved to Cyprus to complete a POST GRAD DIP in Fine Art Practice at The Cyprus College of ART in Lemba.

In 2005 she permanently settled in Cyprus and moved to Limassol.

In 2019/20 she completed the Turps Banana online Correspondence Course. Her mentor was Barbara Nicholls. 

Living in a village outside Limassol with her Cypriot husband and 3 children Kelly paints most days in her home studio. She holds art workshops for children and has coordinated community Art projects. Having had 4 solo shows in Limassol and Nicosia and has participated in several group shows in Cyprus UK and Bulgaria. 

Recent selected shows:

 2022:

  • Beep Painting Prize Everything had changed nothing has changed, The Elysium Gallery, Swansea.
  • Summer Group Show Psifida Gallery Paphos Cyprus.
  • The Drawing Open 2022, No Format Gallery Deptford London.

2021:

  • The lido store open 2021 The Lido stores Margate UK. 
  •  The Royal Academy Summer show in London, UK.
  • In June 2021 her new painting series on newsprint was selected for The London Paint Cub International Open CALL TOGETHER THROUGH PAINTING.
  • In March 2021 her work was selected for the First Newsprint Open Call at The Three Works Gallery UK.
  • In 2021 she participated in the online Turps Banana Correspondence Course End of year show ‘In Absentia’ at the online platform cohortart.com. 

She has work in private and public collections including the Limassol and Nicosia State collection and Intership Navigation in Limassol. 

Her drawing ‘Head in the Shed’ was selected for the Larnaca Biennale in 2018 . ‘Caved in’ a charcoal drawing was selected for second round 2012 VAO UK. 

ARTIST EXHIBITION DATES

06 26 May 23
The Gallery
Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Solid Ground

Oil and rock dust on canvas

90 x 110 cm

2023

€ 750

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Rock Stars

Oil and rock dust on canvas

90 x 110 cm

2023

€ 750

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Cliffhanger

Oil on canvas

35 x 25 cm

2022

€ 350

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Emotional Rocks

Oil and rock dust on canvas

70 x 90 cm

2022

€ 550

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Rave in the Cave

Oil on canvas

40 x 40 cm

2022

€ 350

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Punk Rock

Oil on canvas

40 x 40 cm

2022

€ 350

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Scapeland

Oil on canvas

40 x 91 cm

2023

€ 500

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Somewhere Near

Oil on canvas

40 x 40 cm

2022

€ 350

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Edge of Everything

Oil and rock dust on canvas

160 x 190 cm

2023

€ 1800

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Napa Monster

Oil on canvas

100 x 151 cm

2021

€ 1000

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Bite

Oil on canvas

25 x 35 cm

2021

€ 250

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Endless Summer

Oil  on canvas

160 x 190 cm

2023

€ 1800

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

In a Fog

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

2022

€ 350

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Stormzy

Oil and oil sticks on newsprint

150 x 140 cm

2023

€ 800

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Hill Start

Oil on canvas

22 x 35 cm

2023

€ 250

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Exit Planet Dust

Oil on canvas

22 x 90 cm

2023

€ 400

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Swipe

Oil on canvas

15 x 30 cm

2023

€ 200

Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

Spring in my Step

Oil and oil stick on canvas

80 x 70 cm

2023

€ 550

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    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Solid Ground

    Oil and rock dust on canvas

    90 x 110 cm

    2023

    € 750

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Rock Stars

    Oil and rock dust on canvas

    90 x 110 cm

    2023

    € 750

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Cliffhanger

    Oil on canvas

    35 x 25 cm

    2022

    € 350

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Emotional Rocks

    Oil and rock dust on canvas

    70 x 90 cm

    2022

    € 550

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Rave in the Cave

    Oil on canvas

    40 x 40 cm

    2022

    € 350

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Punk Rock

    Oil on canvas

    40 x 40 cm

    2022

    € 350

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Scapeland

    Oil on canvas

    40 x 91 cm

    2023

    € 500

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Somewhere Near

    Oil on canvas

    40 x 40 cm

    2022

    € 350

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Edge of Everything

    Oil and rock dust on canvas

    160 x 190 cm

    2023

    € 1800

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Napa Monster

    Oil on canvas

    100 x 151 cm

    2021

    € 1000

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Bite

    Oil on canvas

    25 x 35 cm

    2021

    € 250

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Endless Summer

    Oil  on canvas

    160 x 190 cm

    2023

    € 1800

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    In a Fog

    Oil on canvas

    30 x 40 cm

    2022

    € 350

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Stormzy

    Oil and oil sticks on newsprint

    150 x 140 cm

    2023

    € 800

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Hill Start

    Oil on canvas

    22 x 35 cm

    2023

    € 250

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Exit Planet Dust

    Oil on canvas

    22 x 90 cm

    2023

    € 400

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Swipe

    Oil on canvas

    15 x 30 cm

    2023

    € 200

    Kelly Norman | Strictly Landscape

    Spring in my Step

    Oil and oil stick on canvas

    80 x 70 cm

    2023

    € 550