AVERY Kelly’s first bachelor’s degree was in environmental studies, and the second was in fine art. She has combined the two academic interests into a passion for paintings and relief prints featuring animals and landscapes. “I love working with paint in various ways,” says the Fort Worth artist. “I do a lot of birds and animals we have here in Texas, such as roadrunners, foxes, deer and burrowing owls.”
Her oil paintings are colorful and vibrant, showing animals in their natural settings, as well as coastal landscapes of water and sky. Picture a roadrunner on alert, a fox staring at you from the forest’s edge, a deer in a serene aspen stand. Kelly’s other artistic medium is relief printing, also of animals and landscapes. Inspired by her love of the contrasts in Pueblo pottery, the prints are black and white images made from linocuts and hand pulled through a printing press. She’ll also do commissions, including pets, homes and landscapes.
When not actively creating and selling her art or displaying in gallery shows, Kelly serves as an adjunct art professor at Tarrant County College and Weatherford College.
