Kelly Rowe is an Auckland-based artist, a trained Architect and with 20 years’ experience working in the architecture and interiors, her paintings explore both natural and man-made landscapes.
She paints in both oils and acrylic, and her abstract landscapes are tranquil, calming and contemplative, whilst her architectural landscapes push familiar colour boundaries, speaking of vernacular texture, the built environment, form, colour and space, an expression of architectural drawing and constructive memory in a natural environment.
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“Coastal Mosaic” is an architectural landscape that explores the notions of living in a Coastal city, where the sea, land and sky are a paramount aspect of our day-to-day.
Vistas of headlands, taking the coastal road, snapshots of skies and vignettes of the sun rising, a city like Auckland has so much natural beauty in amongst the man-made urban environment.
+ Original Oil on canvas in white Tray frame with Satin Varnish, UV protection
“Clear Waters” is a soft abstract landscape that is about capturing a moment in time, where the waters are still, and the clouds above appear stationary. A lightness, a softness, a calming of the tide, long idle days spent beside the sea and playing in the shallows. We live such busy lives, it is nice to sometime stop and pause, and just appreciate any calm.
Soft pastel and white coloured water, with rose tinted hues and teal green, grey skies.
+ Oil on Canvas, White Framed with Satin Varnish, UV Protection
“Epitome of Calm” is a abstracted view of strong hills and coast lines sitting alongside abstract colour hues that mimic the wide open space of remote natural environments in a modern landscape way.
The sea, the sky, the land can all be the Epitome of Calm if the day suits, and it is often if we wake to days like this it stirs something good within us. Calm, serene, Tranquil.
Midnight blues, soft golden ochres, powder blue and soft peach tones with white.
+ Oil on Canvas, White Frame with Satin Varnish and UV protection