Kerry Stoker
Website: https://www.kerryjstoker.co.uk
Email: kerryjstoker@yahoo.com
Instagram: @kerryjstoker
“Working in my first-floor studio I make abstract paintings and collages which dance with delicious colour. Dreamy artworks, imbued with a profusion of beautiful shapes and subtle veils of colour, soft and gentle or rich, bold and vibrant are often further enhanced with mark making techniques and texture.
“I pour paint, mainly acrylics and household, inks, fabric dyes and other liquids like tea onto the surface, building layers randomly in both media and meaning, each equally critical for success. Brushing, scraping, staining, drawing, printing and through other processes, sometimes adding crushed Yorkshire stone or coal, or Plaster of Paris, elements are revealed and concealed.
“I collect rubbish like a magpie, shiny colourful textural interesting to me rubbish, squirrelled away, gathering dust until I root around to find the perfect piece. Screen printing often provides the basic layer upon which to develop my collages, then, plundering the paraphernalia from bark to gold leaf the image develops and meaning materialises, often unfolding subconsciously.
“Joyful and spontaneous, my paintings and collages are intimate expressions of how I see and interpret the world around and within me. I aim to articulate, and share, that elusive personally significant and visually engaging magic.”
Kerry regularly exhibits at the Tinker Gallery in Ilkley, West Yorkshire and is an active member of Ilkley Arts showing her art in Pop Ups and Open Studios events and has had her work other Yorkshire galleries. Kerry’s work has been shown in London at the Menier Gallery, Bankside: La Galleria, Pall Mall: Art for Youth, Royal College of Art and with The Society of Women Artists. She has participated in the Art-E-Motion‘s Venice Vending Machine at Tate Liverpool and Bristol.
Kerry read Fine Art at Reading University and gained a PGCE at Stranmillis College, Belfast becoming Head of Art at Rockport Preparatory School, Holywood and then at Westville House School in Ilkley. She left education to paint full time and to enjoy her ever increasing family.