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Kelly McNeil
Beaux-Arts Brampton, Studio # 4
70 Main St. N., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, L6V 1N7
Phone: (W) 905 454 5677
Email: Kelly@kellymcneil.net
WILD THING --OIL ON CANVAS
24" X 24"
Kelly graduated from
Ontario College of Art in the early eighties. She has shown her work in various
galleries and wildlife shows across North America such as Morrison Gallery,
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Gallery B, Lexington, Kentucky, The
Metropolitan Frame and Art Gallery, Ormond Beach, Florida, The South Eastern
Wildlife Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina, the Plantation Wildlife Arts
Festival, Thomasville, GA and the Buckhorn Fine Art Festival, Buckhorn, Ontario.
She has also been featured with a group of wildlife artists at Art of the
Animal Kingdom, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont
Kelly is always in demand for teaching workshops, and she is a member of
the Portrait Society of Canada. Kelly specializes in portraiture and wildlife.
She loves drama in her painting, and it is Kelly’s bold use of colour that gives
life to here subjects and makes her unique among wildlife artists.
"When I paint, there has to be a story for me. I want to capture the energy and
drama in nature. The use of the pure warm colours in my palette helps to breathe
life into my work. I use no black, preferring to create my own darks.
It was after I started painting wildlife, that I first started noticing exotic
wildlife in my own backyard. It was like seeing the world in black and white,
then suddenly seeing in full colour.
Whether It's the eagles, coyotes, owls, great blue herons, sandpipers, or
pheasants on my parents Cape Breton Coast property, or the Hawks, ducks, deer,
swans, herons, or turkey vultures of my home town in Brampton, Ontario. My
subject matter continues to abound around me and inspire me."