Continually drawn to certain marks, textures, and colours, she reflects why some details stand out more as she incorporates these influences into her works.
Growing up on the East coast of Scotland and now living on the West coast, the sea has a significant presence in Kerry's life. During her early childhood, as her father made travels across the sea while he served in the Merchant Navy, she tracked his journeys with her mother on a toy globe. Visiting the beach and standing by the water's edge allows her to dwell on those various locations as she imagines the water connecting her to those distant places around the world.
Through her practice, Kerry explores her personal quest to understand the underlying reasons for being attracted to certain elements in the environment around her. Continually drawn to certain marks, textures, and colours, she reflects why some details stand out more as she incorporates these influences into her works. She uses this process of introspection and observation to fuel her artistic journey to shape the way she expresses herself on canvas.
In each of her paintings, Kerry aims to create complex areas of intimate details within expressive, abstract landscapes that combine rich textures with organic patterns found in nature. Using acrylic paint and mixed media, these paintings are completed over a period of several weeks or months. She slowly builds layers of texture, semi-transparent glazes and collage, as she adds and removes with each application creating depth and history in each piece, making them intuitive and ethereal. As Kerry wanders along shorelines to gain inspiration from the atmosphere, surrounded by sea, sand, and sky, everything blurs into the distant, leaving only the raw encounter with nature's magnificent presence around her.