Painting for me is like breathing. It's not an option.
When I paint, I begin with abstract gestures that tend to evolve into familiar images without becoming too specific. I want the interpretation to be open-ended. For the most part, my art is a compression of movement and activity. Simply put, intense! My intention is to create work with layers of meaning. Like a well-done movie, the more you watch it the more you get out of it.
The artist's that have most influenced me are Peter Paul Rubens , Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollock, Rubens for the dramatic, Picasso for the playfulness, and Pollock for the revolution. I like to think that my art has a mixture of the three. If it were wine, it would be a fine Bordeaux.
Biography
David Kelly has exhibited a lifelong passion for art. He was painting in oils and producing realistic pictures at age seven. His colorful imagination soon led him to freer expressions. He loved to doodle. At age eleven, young David won first prize in a local art competition. He did an expressionist painting of a nude woman reaching out to the sun. When he came to collect the prize of $10.00, the judges were astonished. Most of the contestants were adults, so they assumed it was a man that did the nude. As for the teen years, there was really not much artistic development in his life. David's focus was elsewhere. It would not be until his early twenties that he would rediscover his talent. The next fifteen years would be committed to learning and developing his art and his life. Presently, David Kelly lives in the Beaches of Toronto. He has been working full-time as an artist since 1999. He is one of many artists that are now using the Internet to promote and sell their work. This has given Kelly international status. His collectors, though mainly from the US, are from around world. Kelly has been known to explore many styles and themes in his art, but one constant remains and that is the mode of expression that connects to the fundamentals of human nature. His popularity lies in his ability to identify and convey those human complexities that are not so easily articulated in words. Education: Studied philosophy, theology, and English literature at Redeemer College and McMaster University. As an elective took art history. Art training: Studied part-time, impressionism and realism, at the Dundas Valley School of Art. For the most part Kelly is self-taught.
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