Anne-Marie Kelly
Anne-Marie
was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and originally studied Graphic Design,
specialising in Illustration on the Post-graduate Advanced Graphic Design
Course at Central St. Martins School of Art.
She worked for several years as a freelance Illustrator mainly in editorial
and publishing, which included commissions for the Observer, Best magazine
and Collins Books, her most recent project was a Children's book for Hodder
Wayland in 2000.
In 1989 she moved to Cyprus, where she continued to work as a free-lance
Illustrator, lecturer, and ran her own gallery for several years; this
is when she began to turn more seriously towards painting before returning
to the UK and relocating to Dorset in 1997. 
The impact of the Dorset landscape immediately affected her work, which
began to evolve in response to the dramatic and powerful shifts in seasons,
colours, textures and elemental forces of the ancient terrain and coastline.
Anne-Marie works in mixed media on paper, panel and canvas combining layers
of plaster and various textures with acrylic or oil glazes and the addition
of raw pigments.
She lived for seven years in Weymouth before moving to Portland in 2007
to be closer to the sea. Living so close to Chesil Beach, she walks frequently
making many sketches and colour annotations which are then developed in
her Studio, allowing her memory and feelings to dictate the final outcomes.
Anne-Marie is a frequent exhibitor at The Mulberry Tree, where her work
has proved to be very popular.
You can buy Anne-Marie's online at our webshop