Mel Kelleher Gannon – portfolio

Contact the artist

mel.k247365@gmail.com

Exhibition information

I am inspired by mark making and landscape. 

I work with ink, charcoal, pastel, paint, print, collage, words, textiles. More recently I have had experience of creating surfaces on Raku fired pottery and have found the opportunity of making botanical print patterns and surfaces using natural pigments and dye useful to extending my interest in print and textiles. I also make felt.

Work in Progress

 I am investigating the concept of flow in the landscape both as physical phenomenon and as visual language. 

Artist information

Making creative ‘accidents’ does not necessarily mean that I discard work and may add them to a piece, using them as part of a final image. I may use old drawings or unsuccessful print pulls and work on them.

Layered, multi textural pen work is one of my favourite approaches, and I like to dream along whilst holding a pen, a stick or a brush and go with the flow.

 

Black and White Drawing

I love to draw, recording the textural detail and complex linear structures of natural life.

My black and white drawings depict the tenuous existence of the wild characters of our UK landscape, perhaps occasionally giving a nudge to our human conscience.

I read story books with small black and white illustrations as a child. The pictures served to help begin chapters and introduce a relationship with the book’s subject. I am still inspired by the importance of those drawings as they helped to bring emphasis to a storyline or message.

My images have been drawn intuitively without planning or knowing where they will lead, and there is no presence of text.

I have produced characters which live in our local countryside, our gardens and in our hedgerows.

And I’m leaving you to tell their stories.

 

Other themes I have worked with include the regenerative seasons, death and birth, land and water

I continue to enjoy discovery as part of my ‘creative mission’ and look forward to showcasing my drawing (including drawing with a more experimental nature),  alongside a lovely selection of work from some very talented people.

I hope you enjoy our exhibition!

Mel

(BA Hons Narrative and Sequential Illustration)