3 KEY FACTS ABOUT KELLY:
1) Kelly's rare style is a symphony formed of paint, embroidery and geometric data visualisations on canvas.
2) Kelly gained her Masters at The Royal College of Art in 2004, and achieved a 1st Class BA Honours Degree in Contemporary Textile Art at The West Wales School of Art, Wales. 2002
3) She was shortlisted for The Royal Arts Prize 2020 and The Secret Art Prize in 2018.

Kelly Jenkins is a contemporary painter and textile artist based in Hampshire. Starting from an interest in contemporary visual media, she uses data to explore landscape interpretations. Her meticulously embroidered paintings reflect the complex world we now live in.

Kelly Jenkins is an abstract painter and textile artist based in Hampshire, UK. The artist’s rare style is a symphony formed of painted landscape abstractions and embroidered geometric data visualisations on canvas, resulting in tactile, nuanced compositions that bridge the worlds of art, craft and psychology. These intense yet playful atmospheric plains are a reflection of contemporary culture, holding up a mirror to the emotional and physical frequencies of life. With grit, sass and positivity, Kelly’s work carries an arresting sense of levity. Her meticulously embroidered paintings emerge from an interplay between intention and chance, creating a state of equilibrium and harmony on canvas.