Mary Jane Nolan Kelly

mjnk is a restless artist , moving from her interpretations of the Peloponnese landscapes, to creating her neo-iconic Madonnas, to celebrating her adoration of shoes, to her contemporary adaption of still life.

Objects of everyday encounter are treated with exuberant color and joy. Her rendering of the ‘stuff of life’ is a confluence of color and form, indifferent to anything superfluous. Her ‘homage’ to the simple is an example of her faith in her vision - the possibility to render normal things of daily life - in acute visual simplicity. The joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the ordinary, the celebration of color, all inspire her work.

No constraints restrain her.

Bold is simple.

Images and objects radiate.




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