Kelly Root

I find that experimenting with art is a way to find peace within myself and I want to share that peace or joy with others. Art can be both an intuitive, free-flowing, meditative process that calms the soul or it can be a precise mapping of subject matter that exercises the mind.  Though graphite pencils are my usual tools, I want myself and others to see a world of color. My contribution to that world comes through colored pencils and watercolor paints, offset by the deep blacks of my ink pens and brushes. If I can create something I think is cool and others find joy in it, I will succeed.

In her young life, Kelly was an avid artist and spent countless hours drawing.  She would effectively stop drawing regularly in 1994, only briefly picking up a pencil a few times over the next 2 decades to make the occasional gift or to see if there was still anything there.  In 2022, when she began to live authentically full-time, a dear friend would inspire her to pick up the pencils again.  Kelly now spends much of her free time creating, and although still primarily working in graphite, she has expanded her interests into charcoal, colored pencils, watercolors and inks. She is still gifting art to her loved ones to give a little bit of herself at every opportunity.