Biography
Kelsey is a Houston-based artist & educator who didn’t take the traditional path to art school and then full-time artist. She acquired some college level, formal art training but is mostly self-taught. She graduated with a BAAS from the University of North Texas in 2012.
Since 2016, she has gained invaluable knowledge and experience working as a certified visual arts teacher at the high school level. In 2018, she took a break from teaching so that she could spend more dedicated time in her own studio creating her complex observations of life and the human condition. Before her life as an art teacher, she explored various other life paths, all eventually circling her back around to art each time. Art has always been an important part of her life since she was a child. In early 2020, she dearly missed teaching and decided to go back to teaching at the high school level at a local school. She creates when she can, but the teaching life is a pretty time-consuming endeavor!
Kelsey lives just outside Houston, Texas with her husband and two fur baby Jack Russell’s, Little and Lulu. She is a travel enthusiast and loves meeting new people and experiencing new places. Fun fact: From 2013 to 2015, she lived overseas in Galway, Ireland. Before settling in Ireland, she backpacked around France, Italy and Switzerland. Kelsey likes to take in the culture, nature, and various other visual stimulation’s and occasionally uses that as inspiration for her artwork. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, studying herbalism (plant medicine), and practicing her spirituality.
Kelsey’s most current focus is on intuitive mixed media processes, where she “drops” down
into her subconscious mind & allows her intuition to take over. She is very interested in expressing her own experiences and understanding of the human condition and this process has allowed her to explore a whole new depth within that realm. Art is the manner in which she finds her empowerment, by listening to her intuition and documenting what it has to tell her. She works with representational and non-representational means, sometimes combining the two, allowing the expression itself to guide the process and medias used. She likes to keep her practice fresh and exciting by changing things up, trying new approaches, and constantly learning and exploring.
Kelsey has taught numerous art workshops for artists & non-artists. She is a member of the Conroe Art League and exhibits her work on a monthly basis in their gallery in downtown Conroe. She has a new online course in the works titled “Intro to Collage & Mixed Media Art” for those interested in building their knowledge in that area.
Kelsey likes to engage her supporters by creating video compilations of her while she’s working in her studio. Check out her social media accounts by clicking on the icons at the bottom of this page to learn how Kelsey creates some of her works. Be sure to subscribe to her email list and follow her on social media for new artwork and updates! 🙂
Art Exhibits
2020
- Conroe Art League Gallery, Conroe, TX – October
- Conroe Art League Gallery, Conroe, TX – September
2019
- Kingwood Library, Kingwood, TX – 2019
- Charles Bender Performing Arts Center, Humble, TX —June 10 – July 15, 2019
Art Competitions & Awards
2019
- 03/19: The Gateway International Painting Competition (Online Art Competition)—Best In Show—”Mind Over Matter”
- 04/19: Lake Houston Area Artists Art Competition & Show: 1st place—”This Is My Prison” & 3rd place— “Mind Over Matter”
- 06/19: Lone Star Art Guild Convention & Art Competition: Honorable Mention—“This Is My Prison”
- 09/19: Lake Houston Area Artists Art Competition & Show: Honorable Mention– “It’s Not Always So Simple”
Workshops & Presentations
2019
- Know Your Impact Conference June 2019 – Mabank ISD
- “Intuitive Mixed Media Abstract Painting” – a workshop guiding educators on an intuitive painting process using mixed medias to complete an abstract work of art.
2018
- Know Your Impact Conference June 2018 – Mabank ISD
- “How To Help Your Students Find Their Voice Through Visual Journaling” – a workshop teaching art educators how to create visual journals using collage & mixed medias and how it can help students find their voice and style through art making.
2017
- Know Your Impact Conference June 2017 – Mabank ISD
- “Don’t Copy Me! Why Choice Matters” – a presentation on the importance of giving students choice in their learning in all subjects, but more specifically in art education and how to set up your classroom to provide more choice
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