Works From Home Featured Artist - Linda Kelly-Cherney
MEET LINDA KELLY-CHERNEY
After completing a Fine Arts Degree in St. Louis, Missouri, Linda explored the human body through drawing, photography and installation works. As an artist and teacher of Visual and Media art, clay has become her primary vehicle of expression. Linda studied ceramic technique at OCAD U and at workshops at Penland, Kensuke Yamada, Ceramic Arts Network, workshop in Indianapolis, Indiana, Fusion Clay and Glassworks, Mississauga Potters Guild. Brian Hopkins, Waterloo sculpture workshop.
Her clay sculptural works have been exhibited in group show with OC Gallery, Fusion Mentorship, Artscape, Propeller Gallery and Meta 4 in Port Perry.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As an avid “people watcher” throughout my life. My intention is to capture through gesture, simplified forms of movement reflecting the unspoken ways in which we communicate.
I am attracted to clay, and how during the process of making work, clay’s plasticity “talks back”. These fluid conversations between the clay and myself often lead to the unexplored forms and meanings, not always apparent even to me at the onset of work on a piece.
My hope is the viewer will engage with the clay figure in an open narrative offering the possibility of exchanging “whispered secrets”, each having the opportunity of entering into the other’s life stories.
Interested in knowing more about Linda and her work or in purchasing a piece, please contact Linda at l.kellycherney@gmail.com
