Almost with You | Andrew Kelly

  • Andrew Kelly, Approaching Era
  • Andrew Kelly, The Old Brewery
  • Andrew Kelly, Bronte Road at Night
  • Andrew Kelly, Cronulla Pavilion
  • Andrew Kelly, Era Shack with Feral Deer
  • Andrew Kelly, Burning Palms Surf Club and Shack
  • Andrew Kelly, Clifton School of Art
  • Andrew Kelly, Beach View, Late Afternoon
  • Andrew Kelly, The Avenue at Night
  • Andrew Kelly, Stairway at Night
  • Andrew Kelly, The Footway at Night
  • Andrew Kelly, Back to Bonnyvale
  • Andrew Kelly, Three South Coast Cottages
  • Andrew Kelly, South Coast Street at Dusk
  • Andrew Kelly, The Art School at Night
  • Andrew Kelly, Foyer at Night
  • Andrew Kelly, Lakeside Cabins

Almost with You
12 - 31 October 2011

This series of work continues the artist’s exploration of nostalgic urban landscape subjects in Sydney and the New South Wales Coast.   Since the body of work was started several of the subjects have been altered for evermore by development or destruction.  Others instill sense of yearning for another time.  All of the paintings in this series have been made on a coloured ground or priming, to reflect the mood at a particular time of day.  To control for a sense of light, a strictly limited triadic palette of earth colours has been used in the under-layers and a similarly structured palette of primaries (each having a relationship to their corresponding earth hues) for the finishing layers.   As each layer builds some of the previous layer is left exposed, creating surface complexity which in turn creates depth and luminosity.