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| “L’Inverno” © Kelly Borsheim |
Name: Kelly Borsheim
Bio: Kelly Borsheim was born in St.
Paul, Minnesota, in 1964. After moving to central Texas, her art career took
off in photography, specialising in laboratory work and then photo restoration. In
1992, she studied line, tone, and colour for a year before going out on her own
to draw from life. In late 1994, she began to study sculpture at the Elisabet
Ney Sculpture Conservatory.
Since her first painting sale in October
1997 Kelly's paintings and sculptures are now in private collections throughout
the United States and in Australia, Canada, Italy, France, the Netherlands, the
United Kingdom, and New Zealand.
While her love of the ocean is evident in
her aquatic sculptures, she is best known for communicating ideas in her work
with the human figure. Kelly sculpts in clay and wax for casting limited
edition bronze sculptures, as well as carving directly
in stone (usually marble or alabaster) for one-of-a-kind works of
art. Although primarily a sculptor, she believes that drawing is the essence of
all of the visual arts and continues to draw from live models and paint nudes
from life as well.
Medium: Pastel, oil, acrylic, bronze,
marble. Kelly Borsheim first started working with pastel when she became
an amadonnara (street
painter) in Florence, Italy, in September 2007. Knowing that the art would not
last more than a day, she had the freedom to explore layering of colours in a
way that might not have happened otherwise. Now she finds herself longing at
times for the roughness of worn stone on which to apply her pastels!
Subjects: Figurative in the main.
Style: Representational.
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Gallery: Painting; subgalleries: Pastel
Paintings; Charcoal; – and lots of
other headings.
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Dimensions and medium are given, together with some background on each image. Download is permitted. L’Inverno is 18 x 25 ins, 600 x 432, 67 KB
Blog: http://artbyborsheim.blogspot.com/ is the
link to her Florence-based blog.
As an artist myself, I am such a fan of Kelly and her art work. The dimension and depth, saturation of color, and sense of movement in this mysterious piece is stunning. --lisaoneil.com
ReplyDeleteLisa, I believe the cross-fertilization that artists who work in other media bring to their pastels is invaluable. The fact that Kelly is a sculptor is evident in this remarkable piece. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
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