Kerrie delights in noticing the trivialities of life. Her paintings are of familiar objects and subjects close to home. Her art is largely observational and semi-realistic in style. Oil-paints are her preferred medium, although you will find examples here of work in nail-polish, acrylic, guache, charcoal, pen and pencil.
Kerrie is an Industrial Designer by profession, and delights in the opportunity painting offers to reduce “reality” from 3 dimensions to 2. The editorial freedom given in the reductive process of painting is the flipside of her day-job. Her paintings are “one off” as opposed to runs of 5,000 and are blissfully free from commercial pressures. Kerrie has been working for many years in the plastic moulding and Point of Sale manufacturing industry. She has a healthy sense of cynicism, and relishes in a visual or verbal pun.
Most recently Kerrie has focused on a series of paintings of toys and "Little things". The works highlight the juxtaposition of the innocuousness of the commercially designed product versus the emotional and physical reality that the individual toy has had projected upon it by its caretakers. The subjects have intrinsic emotional significance to the painter, who hopes to stir inquisition from the viewer. Does Mr. Potato Head look stereotypically Jewish? Is Barbie interested in the advances of a jointed man made of wood? Does Esme's fixed doe-eyed stare with legs akimbo seem somehow perverse to you? As well as subject matter, there is playfulness in choice of materials - capturing plastic objects in paint, on wood.
Kerrie invites to browse her work: "I feel myself slipping into the 2nd dimension....please explore the flatter me”.
Please browse through the 5 galleries below.
