Chatting to friend and artist Clay Sinclair today he suddenly announced I should take a look at North London artist Kelly O’Gorman’s new website.
I was introduced to Bachelor and Masters of Art Graduate O’Gorman a couple of years ago and have always admired her freestyle approach. Working mainly in ink and with no set plan, “No pencil is laid down beforehand” she sets about drawing. Each piece is an evolution of thoughts, narrative and “working with mistakes”. Many of her works start as small drawings, which then evolve, as she continually introduces new images and characters, expanding it until it becomes a fully developed bigger finished piece.
Inspired by the contents of her mother’s handbag and images from 1950s knitting patterns, O’Gorman’s latest body of work is entitled ‘Lady Luck’. It is a series of glorious illustrations made from carefully selected images that O’Gorman has scanned then “drawn over and around” and placed into a new situations. Both thought provoking & exciting I urge all who read this Blog to seek her out at www.kellyogorman.co.uk
