Bio:
kerry ferris is a long-standing London artist whose work engages issues relevant to both the local and the global community. Her vivid paintings of the animal world and the natural landscape, as well as her works depicting captivating and unconventional portraits of human life, exude a rhythmic energy. A concern with preservation coupled with a celebratory view of nature pervades kerry ferris’s painting practice.
Statement:
Additive Colour is from a series of small collage works that take as their starting point the idea of “the book” – both allegorically in terms of the symbology and narrative structures embedded in the concept of the book, and materially as an object with certain physical properties.