Artist Bio
Kelly worked as a System Analyst for an international relief and development agency before pursuing a full-time career in fine art. Her art education included 15 years of study with 4 top European Master Artists – including 9 years under Slava Letkov - Artist Emeritus of Russia. She also studied intensively with Misha Lebedev, and Sergi Terentiev, Lead Instructor at the Fedoskino School of Art in Russia. She continued her landscape training under Scott Christensen and Nancy Bush – both considered leading representational landscape artists. Kelly’s award-winning large oil landscapes are collected throughout the US and are featured by Visit Utah and AATONAU!, the world’s 5th largest art blog in the World based in Japan. She travels throughout WA, OR, ID, WY, MT, and UT to paint in the wild. She works out of her studios in southern Utah and Western Washington State.