Garry Oak Gallery Artist of the Month: Kelly Liedtke

Ordinary Miracles, Kelly was introduced to pen and ink as a teenager, and this technique has been a constant in her life ever since. Pointillism is probably her favorite. So many dots, so little time! These drawings happen at any time, and she pours her soul into these incredibly detailed ink drawings. People are always remarking about the patience that they must take, and she usually responds with, “oh, there are wars and battles in each and every one”. Kelly finds the best muses are ordinary but shown for a brief instant that their magic is captured, a bird’s feathers in the sunlight, a fish rising to catch its next meal, the way light plays its games on architecture, and things that happen every day that we have forgotten to recognize as magic. These drawings are the cumulative effect of many small actions, added to each other to trick the viewer into seeing the actual subject from a distance but when viewed up close you will see a series of dots, lines and squiggles. Kelly says, “Get up close to see how one dot will affect the other then step back and realize that the drawings are created one dot at time and are very much a reflection of life as we know it.”

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