Kerry's Painting: Kerry's painting style is fresh & vibrant. Her recent figure studies embrace the softness of the female form, with engaging abstract backgrounds. Much of her works are influenced by the moods & surroundings she is in. Often images are hand drawn hundreds of times in notebooks, on corners of serviettes, on old envelopes or dockets, until the idea is settled & true. Kerry then takes her idea further on canvass, selecting the most complimentary medium for the final work. Sometimes ideas come so quickly that there is no prior preparation and the work flows directly from hand to canvas. Val Fitzpatrick says: Kerry's Mentor Val Fitzpatrick from Canberra, has been with her most of her adult life. Val says "Over the years despite our differences in ages, Kerry and I became friends...soul mates actually and spent limited time together. I say limited because Kerrys life on the land was a very full and busy one. She would sometimes be called away from class to attend the needs of the farm. As Kerry's children grew and became less dependant, she found some time to pursue this desire and she attended classes and workshops and art schools, culminating last May when she joined me on a study trip to Greece with Michael Winters as her art tutor and after that, a trip to Italy with Janna to get serious about Sculpture. She returned home from those two trips exhausted but fulfilled and ready to attend to the ideas she had amassed in her sketch book for her exhibition."Pictured Left: Kerry with Val Fitzpatrick, tutoring at Gunnedah- early '80's. Below: A mixed sample of some of Kerry's paintings. "The Hidden Blush" "Mates" Mortal Portals® "Garden Day" Mortal Portals® "Blue Sands" "Streets of Patmos" "Yellow Vase"   "River of Gold"

Val Fitzpatrick & Kerry. Janna, Val Kerry & Caroline at Kerry's recent Mortal Portal Exhibition. Michael Winters Art Tour. Greek Isand Leros Kerry at work in her studio at home.