JONATHAN KELLY | Truths and Rights

About

A painter of marked individuality, Kelly employs a pictorial vocabulary that is simultaneously rich and reductive, self-referential and all-encompassing.

Through luminous colour, texture and the use of paired down recognisable symbols he explores - and questions - structures of shared human experience, consciousness and belief.

Kelly’s images feel discovered rather than painted; they emerge from multiple layers of colour whose order appears indistinguishable, as if the paint has suddenly illuminated and awakened timeless forms that lay beneath.

Iterations of motifs in confident, decisive lines function as mantras or anchors in a search for some pure essential truth, a quest that is as universal as it is deeply nuanced and personal.