Jane Kelly is a visual artist based on the west coast of Scotland. She has a wide range of studio and commissioned practice which derives from a traditional fine art education, deepened by later post graduate cultural studies. Equally significant in her development have been her collaborations with architects, engineers, landscape architects and other artists on multidisciplinary design teams across the UK and in Europe.
She is very much inspired by the powerful nature and culture of the coastal environment she now inhabits, including the challenges facing the ancient Argyll landscape by highly visible sea, land and military based industries. Aspiring to be similarly aware to all project environments, her aim is to take an exploratory holistic approach, and to apply organic and sustainable principles in arriving at original site specific research, design and creations.
Her primary studio and environmental concerns inform her commissioned work, and vice versa, and she welcomes the creative collisions with collaborators and clients. In making images, objects, gardens, landworks and other environments, she is particularly fascinated in exploring ways in which an inspired combination of substantial art or construction materials can create an ethereal sense of place, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
