Anne Kelly has been a working artist for more than thirty years. She works in oils, sculpture, and abstract, mixed media works on paper, combining drypoint printing with collage, gouache, watercolors, and pen-and-ink.  Her surreal, symbol-laden works combine unusual intricacy of detail with dream-like, emotional color and design qualities.  She draws inspiration from the works of early 20th Century Modern Art, but is equally interested in the art of children and unknown Outsider artists. As a reviewer of one of her shows wrote, her work “immerses viewers in the joy and fantasy of imagination, creating a vision and effect of therapeutic serenity.  We also see through the eyes of a child once again.”

Anne received her artistic training at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut, the School of Visual Arts in New York City, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the Art Center of Northern New Jersey, and the Silvermine School of Art.  Her work has been exhibited at the Phoenix Gallery in New York, the Rodger Lapelle Gallery in Philadelphia, the Tobia/Kraa Gallery in Montclair, New Jersey, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, and the public libraries of Montclair and New Canaan, Connecticut.