Peachy Painting

KERRY BRUCE ART - STUNNING ORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY ART - Statement artworks for Interior Designers, Home Owners, Stylists and Decorating Professionals that will give your project that finishing touch. Based on the pristine South Coast of NSW, the artist and director of Gerringong’s Fern Street Gallery finds inspiration in her surroundings, painting from a lofty, light-filled seaside studio. The space is home not just to her solo work, but also to the workshops she regularly runs, where she teaches small groups her signature style involving bold pigment (we’re talking 50 shades of pink!), sensuous application of paint – often with a palette knife – and an all-pervasive sense of joy. Approaching two decades as a full-time artist, her subjects have included various subjects from still life to the human figure, but it is flowers she repeatedly returns to. “I love to abstract my impression of the floral, always working from a still life of blooms,” she says. In these works, colour is intensified, and texture is accentuated. “Shapes and movement are what I am after,” says Kerry, and there’s no doubt she succeeds, with her flowers imbued with such energy and exuberance that they appear ready to burst forth from vases only just containing them. “Each artwork is a unique creation derived from an intuitive practice that spontaneously evolves from one mark to the next,” says the artist. Exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Sydney, regional NSW, Melbourne and London, fortunately, she shows no signs of tiring of her subject matter. “No matter how many times you paint the vase of flowers in situ, a new interpretation of that beauty evolves.” Be it a pretty posy, fecund foliage or a beautiful bouquet, Kerry Bruce’s sumptuous paintings of flowers take on a life of their own.