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Kelly Melgar
Artist/
Mixed Media Artist

Kelly Melgar

Mixed Media Artist

Bio

Anyone who doesn't believe in magic will never find it. Pedagogue, Postgraduate in Art in Education. Artist born in Fortaleza - CE, Brazil. Conquered a career in the visual arts 30 years ago, before in the interior of São Paulo, currently living in Porto Seguro/Arraial D'ajuda - BA as a mosaicist and award-winning painter. Her art is based on observing the place and the most diverse sources of natural resources in Brazil. Natural riches, elemen-tary in their composition, such as man, animals, objects that surround life and contribute to it. She works with ceramic mosaic, stones etc. in wood and also in other materials. She likes NAIF art because it inspires her with the freedom to sculpt the tesserae in the figures arranged in her perception. Mosaic is her main art, but she works with mosaic painting as well, and that way she creates harmonies between painting and mosaic.

Statement
Art for me is believing in magic, because in this field it expands the clarity of creating what I im-agine. The works' movements are like dancers' steps, birds' wings, sounds of an orchestra that overflow the alchemical moment of representing my feeling of that now. It is a precept in the search for a concept. This concept is not defined as a whole, but in the parts that flow towards the realization of the image, making its beginning in the interpretation of itself. This conversa-tion between my imagination and the concreteness of the acts of painting, drawing or sculpting translates the harmony of what I want to show, present, signify and explain. The art for me is to explain the intuition of flow in my perception.

Artworks

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